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Rava appears on Nedarim 55 (then falsely on 56 in the word "Maarava") and not again until Nedarim 62.
Abayei appears on Nedarim 56 and not again until Nedarim 63.
So there's a stretch of 5 daf containing neither Abayei nor Rava. This appears to be the longest such stretch in the Babylonian Talmud.
HOWEVER, Nedarim has the least text per page. A ...
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Basar Shenitalem Min Ha'ayin would be an example of this:
The Gemara Bavli in Hullin 95a and 95b, rules that the thing we are worried about is an animal (according to rashi a raven, according to the rambam "a wild animal or vermin" (my rough translation)) switching the meat. The gemara holds that this doesn't apply if it was in the hands of a non-Jew -- ...
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With regard to Sh'kalim, I believe the answer does indeed rely on publication practices. The practice of printing (and therefore studying) Sh'kalim with the rest of Talmud Bavli Seder Moed can be traced as far back as the times of the Geonim. [The idea is that Sh'kalim is short and therefore relatively inexpensive to print with the rest of Seder Moed to ...
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The simple explanation is that this is how the printers typeset it (open up almost any book on your shelf and you will notice that the first page of the actual book not page one).
However, the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Sichas Erev Shavuos 5745) notes that everything in the world is hashgacha protis, and if the printers decided to add a title page with the name of ...
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Here is what I could dig up about him:
He lived sometime in the (late) second century. This is evident from Shabbos 23b which places him at the same time as Rav Huna who passed away in 296 (wikipedia).
He had two children named Rav Iddi and Rav Chiya (Gemora there).
He lived in Bavel as is evident from the story with Rav Huna. Rav Huna began lecturing in ...
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If you're just looking for long talmudic text, there are others in Brakhot with little commentary: See Brakhot 56b, 58.
Difficult sugyas with little Talmudic text and plentiful Tosafot/Rashi are qualitatively longer (and scarier!) than the more aggadic, pshat texts. There are a few in Niddah that make you hold your breath when you first turn the page onto ...
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R' Alfasi's laws of Niddah are actually hidden in the second chapter of tractate Shevuos. If you don't have a printed tractate handy, then see pages 767 through 778 of hebrewbooks.org's Sanhedrin-Makkos-Shevuos PDF.
As a courtesy to the reader ש”ס נהרדעא also includes a second copy of R' Alfasi's laws of Niddah inside tractate Niddah. This second copy is ...
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I do not have a single edition to recommend, but here are some things to look for when choosing a Shas.
My credentials: I use a huge 35-year old "yellow" Greenwald edition of
the Shas daily in my Daf Yomi shiur, a tiny Oz Vehadar to prepare on
the bus (5 days a week) and whatever is available in the various shuls
that I learn in.
Pesukim - ...
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According to the JNUL website,
Printed editions of the commentaries on tractates Ta’anit, Nedarim, Nazir and Horayot have been mistakenly attributed to him, and were most probably written by the scholars of Mainz or others. Likewise the printed commentary on Moed Katan is wrongly attributed to him. Two tractates have partial Rashi commentaries: Bava ...
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The answers to this question refer to a Yerushalmi (Shabbos 7:2) that extends the melachah of זורה (winnowing) to scattering something in the wind (the example given is spitting). This is cited as halachah in Rema, Orach Chaim, end of sec. 319.
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The simplest explanation is the one found in the Gemara -- the section of the Talmud with a nice discussion of what materials make for good oils and wicks is found in Shabbos (vis-a-vis shabbos candles), so it segways from there into what materials to use for Chanukah lighting.
Perhaps a bit deeper, shabbos candles are known as "the home's lights" (ner ...
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A 5-daf stretch not containing Raba or Abayei is between Meilah 21a and Tamid 25b.
There is another 5-daf stretch, from Tamid 29b through Niddah 3a, that does not contain either Abayei or Rava. Maybe it's cheating because the last few chapters have no Gemara, only Mishna. Also, if you count the 4 daf of Middos which are printed in the Vilna Shas after ...
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The Taamei HaMinhagim (729) says that it's so that if you finish all of Shas you don't brag, because you didn't even learn page 1 (like what msh210 says he was told).
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As @DoubleAA said in the comment, Meilah is only 22 pages. The next Talmidic Tractate is Tamid. You can find the PDF here: http://www.halakhah.com/pdf/kodoshim/Tamid.pdf
Notice that the page numbering does not restart at 2A, but rather starts at 25B.
As @Alex noted in his comment, in between Meila and Tamid are the Mishnayot (with no Talmudic Commentary) ...
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From the Rabbi Broyde post that I referenced in a comment to your un-duplicate question:
Consider, for example, four examples that I happen to have written
about or am writing about currently—tefillin on Chol ha-Moed, aliyot
in a city where all the men are kohanim, whether the daughter of a
gentile man and Jewish woman may marry a Kohen, and the of ...
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No sources that I know of, but a couple of possibilities:
It shows how devoted these students were to their teacher - they wanted to be able to study from him at all hours (and, if he wasn't up to teaching, they'd at least be able to review what they had already learned).
Conversely, it shows how devoted the teacher was, that he'd be sitting and teaching ...
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חגיגה כא ע''א, מנחות כב ע''ב זבחים עא ע''א, יומא נו ע''א,נזיר לו ע''ב all have enormous תוספות.
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Tosfot in Menachot 33b sv. U'mai quotes a Yerushalmi that he says argues on the Bavli regarding how high to put a mezuzah on an extremely tall doorway. The Bavli rules that it should be in the top third of the doorway regardless, while the Yerushalmi rules that in this case the mezuzah should be hung around shoulder height.
According to Rav Yisroel Belsky ...
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As @simchastorah mentioned in a comment to the question, the Chida, in his entry on Rashi in his sefer Shem HaGedolim, goes through all the opinions about Rashi's authorship of various commentaries.
It starts on page 7 of this pdf, and continues through page 10.
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According to (unattributed?) notes in the Soncino edition, "closed" doesn't necessarily mean entirely sealed. Here's what they've got:
First the text:
Abaye said to Rabbah, Something which supports you was taught: A closed house has four cubits; if one had broken open its door-frame, it does not receive four cubits.7 A closed house [room] does not ...
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a ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daf_Yomi
b) When the Daf Yomi was started the Vilna printing was not the only popular print in use and the signs that announced where folios were to be learnt and when included references to both versions of the Talmud.
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It is not all in Shavout, there is some in Yevamot. I think the reason is because there is only about one or two perakim that are הלכה למעשה (like הרואה כתם) in Niddah, so the Rif wrote down the halachos thereof on masechtos that he was writing on anyway that have sugyas about Niddah, like the end of the second perek of Shavuot.
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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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The Rambam recommends spending one third of one's available time for study reading Tanach, and the other two thirds reading Talmud (Hilchot Talmud Torah 1:11).
Rabbeinu Tam on the other hand (Tosfot Sanhedrin 24a sv Belulah), feels that by reading Talmud, one also is credited with reading Tanach because the Talmud is full of citations from Tanach.
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I think you're mixing up which paragraph is the interrupting material. The gemara prior to your quote had been discussing the opinion of Rebbe. In that discussion it mentioned the rule of 'curtailed threads' as a possible understanding of Rebbe's understanding of the Mishna. It then returns to its primary topic: Rebbe's opinion. When it's done, it reanalyzes ...
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the last perek of pesachim has rashba"m as well as rashi. the perus on tamid is not rashi, nor is the perush on kinnim. the middle of menachos has two printed versions of rashi, it is possible that on is misattributed to him. printed in place of rashi on nazir is the riva"n, rashi's son-in-law. the end of makkos is that riva"n and rabbeinu gershom. the ...
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