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What were the arguments for and against man's creation?
Eiruvin 13b records a debate in which Beit Shammai says it would have been better for man not to have been created, while Beit Hillel says it's better that we were. What were the specific arguments ...
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Following the stringencies of different opinions
There is a tangential discussion in 'Eruvin, Daf 6b-7a about whether or not we can take the stringencies of two conflicting opinions. The Gemara seems adamant that we cannot, though there are examples ...
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What did Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai argue about for three years?
Eiruvin 13b records a dispute between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai that went on for three years, after which a bat kol (voice from heaven) intervened. The point of bringing this story here in the ...
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What is the Halachic difference if people are kosher or not?
The Ramban derives that people are kosher from the gemara in Kerisos (21a i think) That since the rabbis said that human milk is kosher using concept that anything that comes from kosher animal is ...
