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Baraita of Rabbi Yishmael

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Ashkenaz
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Translation based on the Metsudah linear siddur, by Avrohom Davis, 1981

Baraita of Rabbi Yishmael

Rabbi Yishmael says: The Torah is expounded through thirteen methods: 1) A conclusion drawn from a minor or lenient law, to a major or more strict one.

2) A clarification based on identical words or terms in the Biblical text.

3) A principle derived from one Biblical text or from two Biblical texts.

4) A rule followed by a detail.

5) A detail followed by a rule.

6) A rule followed by a detail, which is in turn followed by a rule, may infer only what is similar to the detail.

7) When a general rule requires an explicit rule; when an explicit rule requires generalization.

8) Something included in a general rule, which was singled out to teach— was not singled out to teach about itself, but to teach (something new) concerning the rule as a whole.

9) Something that was included in a rule and was singled out in a case similar to its rule, —it was singled out to lessen not to increase the severity of the case.

10) Something that was included in a rule and was singled out in a case which is not similar to its rule, —it was singled out either to lessen or to increase the severity of the case.

11) Something that was included in a rule and was singled out for a new stipulation— does not revert to its rule unless Scripture restores it to its rule expressly.

12) A matter deduced from its context, or from a subsequent expression.

13) Also, two passages that contradict each other until a third passage reconciles them.

May it be Your will Adonoy, our God and God of our fathers, that the Holy Temple be rebuilt speedily in our days: and grant us our share in Your Torah. And there we will serve You reverently as in the days of old, and in earlier years.

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