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The Tosefta: Translated from the Hebrew with a New Introduction, Volumes 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The importance of the Tosefta for literary, historical, and religious scholarship has long been known, and this two-volume set makes it accessible to many more readers. The work is a vital supplement to the early rabbinic oral tradition first set to writing in the Mishnah at the end of the second century of the Common Era. Dating to about 220 CE and also set in the Tannaic period, the Tosefta has...

Lord, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, built; you need no longer carry it upon your shoulders (2 Chron. 35:3). K. He said to them, “Hide it away [for future use], so that it will not be taken away into exile like the rest of the Temple utensils, so put it back in its place, as it is said, Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel (2 Chron. 35:3).” L. Forthwith the Levites hid it away. M. R. Eliezer says, “The ark was taken away in exile to Babylonia,
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