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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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.
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.
