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 I've been blogging a bit on Substack, at Scribal Error. While focused more on gemara and girsaot, I just had a post on Rationalism and Midrash. Check out Luminous Stones and Peshat in Midrash ....

http://parsha.blogspot.com/2022/12/its-been-while.html

 Here is Bereishit 1:2 : וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י תְה֑וֹם וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מ...

http://parsha.blogspot.com/2022/10/minchat-shai-bereishit-12.html

Here is Bereishit 1:1 : בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃ Minchat Shai comments: בְּרֵאשׁ�...

http://parsha.blogspot.com/2022/10/minchat-shai-bereishit-11.html

BACKGROUND 1) Who is the typical author of a stam Mishnah? Tosefta? Sifra? Sifrei? 2) Why put the position as setam instead of spelling it out? 3) Which side of the page is Rashi? 4) Wha...

http://parsha.blogspot.com/2021/10/review-questions-for-learning-sukkah-2a1.html

 On Yoma 74 : > איתיביה רבי יוחנן >  לריש > לקיש  אין לי > אלא כל שישנו בעונש ישנו באזהרה כוי > וחצי שיעור �...

http://parsha.blogspot.com/2021/06/koy-and-chatzi-shiur-yoma-74.html

For today's daf yomi, Shabbat 75a, let us consider the chilazon. Does the gemara's description of it match up with what contemporary scientific sources say about it? In particular, here is Pliny...

http://parsha.blogspot.com/2020/05/shabbat-75-keeping-chilazon-alive.html