Open AccessТhe Image of Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi in Talmudic Literature
Author(s) -
Yaakov Sinichkin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tiroš
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-3380
DOI - 10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.1.1
Subject(s) - talmud , midrash , veneration , variety (cybernetics) , character (mathematics) , judaism , philosophy , literature , theology , art , mathematics , statistics , geometry
The article examines a variety of sources from the Babylonian Talmud and the Midrash trying to establish why, despite the visible veneration of Rabbi Yehuda-ha-Nasi (called also just Rabbi, Rabbi Judas the Prince in Talmudic literature), he was also heavily and sharply criticized both for his moral character and his ways of management.