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judeanoncapta:
Thank you so much for your questions last week. Can't wait to hear the new ones.

q_q_:
who are the classic hebrew grammarians and what are the names of their books ?

q_q_:
Regarding Abbaye Raba and the well in Beitzah 36b 

I asked last week, and you mentioned that Abbaye often went against Raba. In the story, the last line is important. 

Abbaye  had a mill and asks Raba regarding protecting it on shabbos.
Raba gives him a lenient way within the law that he can do it.
Abbaye is strict .. he lets the mill be destroyed.
*And says that the mill was destroyed as a punishment for not listening to Raba (or his rav?). *

But that last line is important.  Why did he say he was punished for not following Raba?

As if he should have followed Raba.  He Knew that his mill would be destroyed if he did it his way and left it there. He clearly thinks he was punished for not following Raba, and he should have followed him.

Why? What does this teach?

Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb of Ohr, has used this argument that you have to follow your rav.

And I imagine it is the basis of others who say that if you ask your rav, you are bound by his decision.

MY perosnal view, is it might be teaching that you can't be machmir(stricter) than your rav. It could cause him embarrassment.  Or, more generally, it's about not so much "your rav or having a rav a personal rav" But it's about not being stricter than a scholar you ask.

Kahane-Was-Right BT:
Dear Judea,

In last week's show you mentioned how much of the Talmud Yerushalmi has been lost and the work as a whole remains incomplete, so in many cases we must defer to the Talmud Bavli with no other choice.  I was wondering if you think it is possible to recover any of the lost material or has any recently been found?   Perhaps in archeaological digs, or in some cave somewhere, like they found the dead sea scrolls, etc.   And if any has been found, is it reliable or can it be reliably added to the current composition of Talmud Yerushalmi?

Also, you mentioned the subject of the dead sea scrolls last show and spoke about how they were an essene sect which hid in a cave to avoid the dangers of 'end times' -  I have heard various religious sects take different angles on these scripts, especially some (like I heard on george noory's "coast to coast" show on the radio late at night) that use the findings to insist that the idea of a killed messiah was within Jewish thought prior to Jesus and that early Christianity was a Jewish breakoff sect.  I was wondering, do our sages generally have a similar opinion to you, that this was a small breakaway sect, they did not have normative beliefs, and what is the significance, if any, of these finds to Orthodox Judaism.  I understand they had some texts that are not within our mesorah and I wonder are these unknown/unused texts significant in any way to us?  What is Torah Judaism's view of the dead sea scrolls?

q_q_:
A NK guy told me a definition of a rodef.
If A is running after B and B is running away .  A is a rodef.

is this correct? what does the halacha really say? Does B have to be running away?

What if B is sitting in a cafe and cannot see him? Or A comes up from behind.
Or B fights back.  Is A still a rodef or not?

And is killing the last resort. The NK guy and rabbis I spoke to said yes. That you have to run, and if you can't run you injure, and if that doesn't work, then kill him (in this sense, last resort).

But I also heard that if somebody comes to kill you, get up early and kill him
And Rabbi Binyamin Kahane quoting a rashi about killing a burglar, and it is assumed he is trying to kill you, and you kill him not as a last resort, but you kill him.  Is it a mitzva? or just a positive thing?

The rabbis I spoke to started out saying that if somebody comes to kill you, kill him first. But then when told what the NK guy said, they agree you have to run and if that fails,  try to injure and last resort kill.

I can't reconcile that with other things I have heard e.g. from rabbi binyamin kahane. What does the text say?

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