1. Monday: www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudMap/MG.html Masorah Chapter numbers Targum (a few links) Sedrah Wednesday: Breslauer chapter 4.

2. G. Question: When is it evening? Tanna mentioned the offerings Why? Amora assumes that Tanna knew: evening was when the time the stars come out. Answer: to teach something else: the time of the priests ate the offerings.

3. Digression: Ritual impurity Does the coming of evening remove some impurity? Yes

4. Back to the point… Mishnah refers to offerings Another text t refers to a poor man’s evening meal. Solution: both events were simultaneous.

5. Later discussions Added to Talmud in Medieval period.

6. “RASHI” R. Solomon ben Isaac 1040 – 1105: France Interpreted Talmud words in order of appearance. “When is it morning? When you can see the white spots in poorly died wool.”

7. TOSAFOT “Additions” to Rashi’s commentary. 12-13 century: Rashi wrong: Another commandment: wear fringes on garments: blue and white. When you can tell these apart. Try to bring all of Talmud into a consistent whole.

8. Other commentaries Medieval to renaissance. Sometimes shows differing cultural traits of Jews in different parts of the world.

9. Later Glosses Up to late 19 th century Cross-references etc.

10. Oral Torah Tannaim  Mishnah Amoraim  Talmuds Mishnah Talmud. Midrash

11. 2 kinds of writing Halakhah = legal discussions. Aggadah (Haggadah) = non-legal

12. Aggadah Haggadah Non-legal portions of Oral Torah. Stories, Midrash Moral lessons etc.

13. Aggadah Rav Judah said in Rav’s name: The Holy One … did not create a single thing in all his world which has no purpose. He created the snail as a remedy for a scab… A serpent is a remedy for a boil. What is the treatment? One black and white serpent … boiled to a pulp and then rubbed in.. Talmud: Shabbath 77.

14. Halakhah: “the way” Legal discussions in Oral Torah

15. Mitzvah / Mitzvot Commandments 365 prohibitions + 248 requirements (248 = body parts) ----- 613

16. 613 = TORaH. T is 400 +W (o) is 6 +Ris 200 +His 5 = 611 + 2 = 613 Extra 2 come from commandments which precede creation. I am the Lord, your God You shall have no other gods before Me.

17. 613 Some overlap between + and – mitzvot, Some very plain, others come from talmudic interpretation. Grace after meals inferred from "and you will eat and be satisfied and bless the Lord your God“.

18. Not all applicable No temple Some apply only to Israel.

19. Gezeirah, “Fence” Mitzvah: no work on Sabbath Gezeirah: do not touch implements of work

20. Takkanah Non-biblical law –Candles at Hanukkah –Regional variation

21. Minhag Binding Custom Extra day of holidays outside of Israel, even after proper calendars made. Kippas

22. Halakhah Mitzvot Gezeirah Takkanah Minhag

23. Law, not legalism Self – Transformation Dignity not Dogma

24. Spirit, not letter of Torah “Eye for an eye” means compensation not mutilation

25. Golden rule Concerned with others, not yourself = love and fear of God

26. Emunah, Faith Righteous live by faith

27. Non-esoteric? Often against esoteric speculation. Every letter in Torah holds meaning.

28. Divine Truth This world The inner-person