2 passagesc. 500 CEHebrew / AramaicCC-BY
Individual passages from Talmud Bavli, Bava Metzia, indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
The rabbis once overruled God. And God laughed. According to Bava Metzia 59b, the incident began with an argument about an oven. Rabbi Eliezer declared a certain oven ritually pure...
Reish Lakish was a bandit. He was also, according to Bava Metzia 84a, one of the most physically imposing men alive, a gladiator, a highwayman, a man who lived by violence. Then he...