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Why do we have many teachings from Hillel and Shammai, but very few of earlier zugot?
Because in those days there was very little to no machlokes:
בראשונה לא היתה מחלוקת בישראל, אלא על הסמיכה בלבד
In the beginning there was no disagreement in Israel, except regarding
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Why do we have many teachings from Hillel and Shammai, but very few of earlier zugot?
Per @RabbiKaii's request:
The reason that the teachings of the Zugot have been lost seems largely based on the reality of classic tannaitic and amoraic texts not including much of any of their ...
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Books on science and Torah in Hebrew
Revisiting this question from a long time ago...
I have found the works of Rabbi Dr. Michael Avraham to be a very good resource in terms of science, philosophy and Judaism. I contacted him a number of ...
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