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Chavurath B'nei Noach: CB"N Library: Reading Room: Ein Yaakov - The Aggadah of the Babylonian Talmud: ... (7051 words) |
 | Ein Yaakov - the Aggadah of the Babylonian Talmud |
| Ein Yaakov, one of the most popular classics in Rabbinic literature, is a collection of the aggadic material found in the Talmud. |
| Ein Yaakov gained instant popularity, and soon after its first printing (Salonica, 1516) it became the favorite textbook of businessmen and working people who were eager to learn Gemara but had neither the time nor the inclination to explore the knotty deliberations of the halachic portions of the Talmud. |
| Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Of Eternal Life (4222 words) |
| Yaakov's true being is as it is conceived by the Torah, and this is not bound by the limitations of nature. |
| Thus the mourning and burying of Yaakov, which was required by Torah because it appeared to them that he died, draws down the potential for every Jew to reach the Resurrection of the Dead through the task of refining and purifying the body. |
| In his gloss to Ein Yaakov, Rif states: "Since he desired to rebuke him, he stopped eating so that he could reply." This appears to imply that Rav Yitzchak ceased eating entirely, and did not resume; he was not merely pausing between courses. |
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