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Number of occurrences of the names of tannaim in various books
Does anyone happen to know of a place where someone has counted the occurrences of the names of the Tannaim in the different books of rabbinic literature (e.g. Mishnah, Tosefta, Sifra, Sifrei etc.)?
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"Observing without judging" -- is there a Jewish basis for this concept?
I have bumped into a concept attributed to the philosopher J. Krishnamurti:
"observing without evaluating is the highest form of human
intelligence"
The idea under this is to avoid judging ...
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Middah keneged middah vs Moddedin
I've seen two expressions used by Chazal:
Hashem judges a person מידה כנגד מידה, measure for measure, for example Nedarim 32a
במידה שאדם מודד בה מודדין לו, by the measure a person uses They use to ...
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