Cognitive Dissonance Between Halachah and Talmud 2

How Halachah grew INTO being the Talmud Bavli and then subsequently outgrew the Talmud

See Professor Ezra Chwat's article: "Great Rabbis of the Muslim Empire"

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/muslim_rabbis.html

Snip #1
Bavli=Yerushalmi

"In Fatimid North Africa, the Babylonian Talmud shared equal stature with the Jerusalem Talmud. Thus, an important nuance in the works of R. Hananel and R. Nissim is their side-by-side comparison of the two Talmuds, often using the Jerusalem Talmud to supplement the Babylonian. "

Snip #2
Bavli is superceded by "sifrei Halachah"

"that the Halakhot books actually dethroned the Talmud as the standard text used by law-makers, to the extent that they evolved into texts that could function as an updated Talmud."

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