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Source for electricity in the times of the Talmud?

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How to learn Tosefta

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Where does רבי שמעון בר נחמי learn that different places have different designated times to read the Megilah?

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What's the source of Gerut Lechumra and what is it

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From where do the words ad sh'yevulu sifoisechem mi lomer dai

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Did the Himyarite Kingdom (Jewish state from c. 380 CE till 530 CE) have the Talmud/Oral Torah? If they converted without it, are they valid converts?

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Does the Talmud have any wise sayings about people who used to be rich but then lost all their money?

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Why does Bartenura quote Rabbi Meir as holding "we learn yes from no", when the gemara says the opposite?

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Four Tzaddikim died only because of Snake's advice and never commited a sin!

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Does the name Rami (רמי‎) have a meaning based in Judaism? If so, what is it?

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Ein Mishpat in opposite direction

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Why do Rabbis say that HaShem was mistaken and HaShem states that He was defeated and that He must obey the Rabbis?

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Does the Gemara teach that Jews are allowed to kill gentiles but not vice versa?

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Difference between aggadah in gemara and midrash

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