Minority Views and the Role of the Mara De-Atra
August 31, 2009 by Nathaniel Helfgot
Filed under Halakha, Talmud
Minority Views and the Role of the Mara de-Atra1 By Nathaniel Helfgot There is a tannaitic dispute regarding which aspects of the performance of a circumcision push aside the Sabbath restrictions: R. Akiva maintains that only actions that could not be prepared before the Sabbath are permitted to be done for a circumcision on the [...]