The Nautical Minds of the Talmud

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Rabbis of the Talmud kept personal notebooks, for example Zeiri and Levi's notebook found on Shabbat 156a". Personal compilations of learning and ideas are kept by Rabbi and Yeshiva students to this day.. This blog is such a "Pinchas" - a modest personal collection of ideas from across the sea of Shas and Tanach.

However modest, subjective, error ridden and personally indulgent, this effort is dedicated to my boys - Yonatan Simcha and Dov Alexander and daugher Elana Rachel. All are experienced sailors and dedicated to Torah Study. The three of us have sailed the sea of Torah together as well as the Great Canadian Lakes in my sailboat -"The Boat".

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There is a Jewish nautical mind! Israel after all is a country by the sea. There are well know ancient seaports at its shore. Less well know is the vast store house of laws, philosophy, anecdotes and experience about ships, the sea and the Jewish experience of nautical enterprise that is contained in the Talmud. This Blog will present that view of the Talmud. This is a project of What If What Next(TM) a Public Relations firm located in Toronto, Canada. For more information contact the Author: Howard Oliver Partner, What If What Next (TM) Toronto, Ontario holiver@whatifwhatnext.com http://www.whatifwhatnext.com (C) 2004, Howard Oliver, Toronto, Canada All Rights Reserved

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by Howard on Sun 04 Jun 2006 09:17 AM PDT

Commerce
The Law of the Ship

Carrying At Sea

Divorce – Gittin 7b
Dirt from outside Israel, on a boat in Israeli waters: Gittin 7b
Requiring verification where the Get was brought on a boat on the Rivers of Israel or in the Mediterranean territorial waters of Israel: Gittin 7b-8a

Fishing
Tractate Nedarim Folio 20a
Baba Bathra 21b The Fisherman’s Livelyhood
Baba Bathra 78b
The Holy Temple
Gitting 56a The Distruction of the Temple
Set Sail on a Ship

Food
Abodah Zarah 40a Cuisine
Abodah Zarah 40b Permitted Foods
Abodah Zarah 10b
Baba Bathra 78b

Items Lost at Sea
Baba Mezi'a 58a Lost
Baba Mezi'a 24b Finding Lost Goods
Tractate Baba Mezi'a Baba Mezi'a 43a
Baba Mezi'a 29b
Abodah Zarah 62a
Baba Mezi'a 87a Rudders as Measurement
Baba Bathra 78b Merchandise

Marriage
Yebamoth 115a The Aguna
Kethuboth 61a Marital Relations
Kethuboth 62a Marital Relations
Berakoth 11a The Principal of Being Agitated
Berakoth 16b The Principal of Being Agitated

Mystical
Tractate Berakoth 8a Death
Kethuboth 111b The World to Come
Pesachim 4: Sailors Come from the Tribe of Zebulin
Baba Bathra 91b Abraham the Captian
Baba Basra 200 Abraham the Captian
Niddah 14a The Righteosness of Sailors
Baba Mezi'a 59b R. Gamaliel
Nedarim 50a The Wealth of Rabbi Akiba

Prayer
Berakoth 28b Prayer
Baba Mezi'a 59b R. Gamaliel’s Prayer
Berakoth 11a Saying the Shema
Niddah 31a
Berakoth 30b Time for Saying the Shema
Niddah 31a The Blasphemer

Seamanship
Sotah 48a Sailors Can Sing
Horayoth 10a Using the Stars

Sea Monsters
Baba Basra 203 Monster Waves and Hashem
Baba Basra 204 Fish Stories – “If I had not been there, I should not have believed it.”
Baba Basra 205 The Voice of Heaven
Baba Basra 208 The Leviathan
Baba Basra 208 The Ruler of the Sea
Baba Basra 208 The Jordan and the Levitan
Baba Basra 208 The Sea-Goat
Baba Basra 208 The tale of the Diamond the Snake and the Diver
Baba Basra 208 Fear of the Unknown

Selling A Boat
Baba Basra 167: Selling a Boat
Baba Basra 168: Transfer of Ownership
Kethuboth 85a Acquisition

Shabbas Observance
Shabbath 60b Festival Observance
Shabbat 93: Shabbas Observance While On Board
Shabbath 111a Knots
Shabbath 156a

Ritual Purity
Baba Kama 46 Discovering Tuma in the Hold
Tractate Nazir Becoming Unclean Abroad

Trade Routes
Abodah Zarah 34b By Way of Tyre
Yebamoth 115b From Spain
Baba Basra 208 For upon seas and rivers he hath established it

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