Rabbi Zeira's stringency (Imperial Aramaic: חומרא דרבי זירא) or the stringency of the daughters of Israel (Hebrew: חומרת בנות ישראל) relates to the law...
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give it, because this would accustom the child to untruthfulness. Rabbi Zeira's stringency Berachot 49a Talmud Yerushalmi Berachot 8c Zevachim 105b; Berachot...
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menstruation. This lengthening of the niddah period is known as Rabbi Zeira's stringency. According to contemporary Halacha these "seven clean days" must...
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already attested to in the Bible. In the Talmud, some rabbis are mentioned as frequent fasters. Rabbi Zeira was perhaps the most prominent of these, but his...
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translator. The Beard in Jewish Law: Halachic Imperative or Kabbalistic Stringency? Brooklyn: Ktav Publishing House, 2010. (Leviticus 19:27). Mark Washofsky...
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where they did not work to a place where they did work, was bound by the stringencies of either. The Mishnah taught that a person should not deviate from the...
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