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1) Wikipedia says Nahmanides identifies the Sambation with the Guzana River mentioned in II Kings, located in Medes.
2)Ba'al Ov involves a process of bringing the Dead to speak with a live person. For more info see this link.
3) A quick google search reveals no known burial place for Tornosrufus. As far as I know we have no Mesorah where he is buried to go ...
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My guess is that the drasha of "בן ולא בת, בן ולא איש" was a known drasha that the mishna here is incorporating to support it's statement about the age of the ben sorrer u'moreh. Although the fact about "בן ולא בת" is not relevant to the discussion of the mishna, it includes the full statement as it was known.
To give a more famous example, in the gemara ...
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Every king is obligated to write his own Sefer Torah. See Chinuch Mitzvah 503
The obligation only starts once the King becomes King. Any Sefer Torah written prior to that cannot be used to fulfill this Mitzvah.
I'm pretty sure that is what the Mishna is indicating with the word "LeShmo". The Sefer Torah the King writes should be his Sefer Torah, which he ...
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If you look carefully at the Gemara it doesn't really say that.
מאי בבל א"ר יוחנן בלולה במקרא בלולה במשנה בלולה בתלמוד במחשכים הושיבני כמתי עולם אמר ר' ירמיה זה תלמודה של בבל
R. Yochanan is talking about Babylon, or more specifically the Torah scholars there. There doesn't seem to be an indication that he is referring to the Babylonian Talmud. R. ...
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