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Talmud: It was taught in a baraita that the rabbis disputed the precise expression that was employed in the Temple. R' Yishmael says that the formula is: The light flashed; R' Akiva says: The light has risen, which is brighter than a mere flash. Naḥuma ben Apakshiyon says: There is even light in
The Talmud questions R' Yehuda ben Beteira’s version of the formula: If it is so that the people have gone to work, it has grown considerably lighter. People go to work after it is light. Apparently, R' Yehuda ben Beteira is referring to a time after sunrise, not a time adjacent to dawn. The Talmud
§ Rav Safra said: The time for the afternoon prayer of Abraham begins from when the walls begin to blacken from shade. When the sun begins to descend from the middle of the sky, producing shadows on the walls, that marks the beginning of the setting of the sun and then the afternoon prayer may be r
Rav Yosef said: And will we arise and derive a halakha from Abraham? Didn’t Abraham live before the Torah was given to the Jewish people, and therefore halakhot cannot be derived from his conduct? Rava said: The tanna derived a halakha from Abraham’s conduct, and we do not derive a halakha from h
Rather, Rava said: With regard to Rav Yosef, it was not the matter of deriving halakha from the conduct of Abraham that is difficult. Rather, this is difficult for him, as we learned in a Mishnah: When Passover eves occur on Shabbat eves, the daily afternoon offering is slaughtered at 6½ hours of