Machshava:

Avot D'Rebbi Natan,  Midrash 

Collections: R' Etshalom Avelut during Sefirah

Description

This is the concluding shiur in our 3-part series about the sources for mourning practices during the Sefirah period. In this shiur, we reexamine the story in BT Yevamot 62b and compare it with 3 parallel versions in Midrashic literature, and propose an identification of the "building blocks" of the Bavli story in yet earlier sources found in both Bavli Ketubot and Yerushalmi Nedarim and Sanhedrin, as well as parallel passages in both versions of Avot d'Rabbi Natan