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8 unusual facts about Horayot


Bezalel Ronsburg

Ronsburg was the author of Horah Gaver (Prague, 1802), commentary on the tractate Horayot, and Ma'aseh Rab (ib. 1823), marginal notes on the Talmud, reprinted in the Prague (1830–32) edition of the Talmud and in several later ones.

Eliezer Karpeles

Karpeles was the author of Me-Abne ha-Maḳom, novellæ, chiefly to Horayot and to some passages of Maimonides (Prague, 1801), and 'Erki 'Alai, notes to 'Arakin and Hullin (ib. 1815).

Herodian coinage

The Greek letter Chi representing the "crown of Kehunah (High Priest)" and the diadem representing the "crown of Malchus (Kingness)" (BT: Horayot, Keritot) are taken to mean that Herod claimed both offices for himself.

Horayot

(Hebrew: הוריות, Decisions) is the final tractate of Seder Nezikin in the Talmud.

It discusses laws pertaining to errors in judgment by a Jewish court.

Nezikin

#Horayot (הוריות, Decisions) deals with the communal sin-offering brought for major errors by the Sanhedrin.

Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak

Rav Nachman is also reported to have stated (in Nazir 23b and Horayot 10b), "Greater is a sin for the sake of Heaven than the fulfillment of a precept that is not for the sake of heaven".

Simha of Speyer

Simḥah was the author of the following works: (1) commentary on the treatise Horayot, quoted in Tos.


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Aharon Lichtenstein

Based on Rabbi Lichtenstein's Talmud classes at Yeshivat Har Etzion, his students' notes have been edited and published as Shiurei Harav Aharon Lichtenstein on Tohorot, Zevahim, the eighth chapter of Bava Metzia, the third chapter of Bava Batra, the Ramban's pamphlet on Dinah DiGarmi, the first chapter of Pesahim, Masechet Horayot, and several critical chapters of Gittin.


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