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One rabbinic composition, for example, using the masculine language of the biblical text (“King” — Deuteronomy 17: 14), attempted to make queenship illegal (Sifre Deuteronomy 157).

Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Women. 2009

Indeed, Maimonides is the only legal authority to codify the law stated in the Sifre that women may not be appointed to any type of public leadership position in the Jewish community (MT Melakhim 1: 5).

Maimonides. 2009

Other than the Mishnah, there is much material about the ritual in Tosefta Sotah and in the Midrash Halakhah for Numbers (Sifre), Sections 7 – 21.

Sotah, Tractate. 2009

Indeed, some Tannaitic sources oppose these stages explicitly, claiming that: “It is not appropriate to degrade the Israelite daughters in a manner that exceeds what is written in the scripture” (Sifre, Numbers 11).

Sotah. 2009

Two further incidents recorded in this stratum (one in BT Kelim Bava Kamma 4: 17 and one in Sifre Deuteronomy 307) mentioning the (unnamed) daughter of Rabbi Hananiah ben Teradyon are traditionally also associated with Beruryah.

Beruryah. 2009

The Sifra that Rashi employed was more complete than the one now available, and he cites a second Sifre, at present unknown.

Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

Sifre, [38] and Haggadic compilations, such as the Rabbot,

Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

The redaction of the Mekilta, the commentary on Exodus, is attributed to R. Ishmael; that of the Sifra, or Torat Kohanim, the commentary on Leviticus, to R. Judah ben Ilai; that of the Sifre, the commentary on Numbers and Deuteronomy, to R. Simon ben Yohai and to the school of R.b, all scholars of the second and third centuries.

Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

In addition to the Talmud there has been handed down a vast amount of Jewish learning, such as the Bereitha, the Tosephtoth or appendices, the Mechilta or traditions unknown to Rabbi Judah the Holy, and the commentaries Sifra and Sifre.

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

Midrash ha-Gadol, Zot habberakhah 4: 5, Sifre to Deuteronomy 357,

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