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Dr. Rabbi
Richard Hidary
Yeshiva University

Dr. Rabbi Richard Hidary is Associate Professor of Judaic studies at Yeshiva University. He is also the Distinguished Rabbinic Fellow at Congregation Shearith Israel. He received his ordination from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and a Ph.D. from N.Y.U. He is the author of Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud.

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Four Ways to Derive the Thirty-Nine Avot Melakhot

The Torah never defines specifically what, melakha, labor, on Shabbat entails, but the Mishnah already has an exact list of 39 categories of labor prohibited on Shabbat. A comparison of the structure of the Yerushalmi and Bavli sugyot highlight the different ways the Amoraim conceptualized melakha in contrast to the Mishnah.

Four Ways to Derive the Thirty-Nine Avot Melakhot

The Torah never defines specifically what, melakha, labor, on Shabbat entails, but the Mishnah already has an exact list of 39 categories of labor prohibited on Shabbat. A comparison of the structure of the Yerushalmi and Bavli sugyot highlight the different ways the Amoraim conceptualized melakha in contrast to the Mishnah.

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It could well be that our own, “enlightened,” moral views will one day be outmoded; let us hope that our descendants will feel bound not by our frail words, but by the robust spiritual tradition.

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Norman Solomon

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