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Over the centuries, various works, such as Mevo HaTalmud, Halichot Olam, and their commentaries were compiled summarizing the rules and weighing them against one another. Often, their discussions consist of a deluge of citations proving or disproving a point by referencing sugyot spanning the entire corpus of Talmudic literature. Though adding all of those citations to this page would be heplful, thanks to the Sefaria plugin, due to the tediousness of the endeavor, as a minimum, we will suffice by quoting the Klalim Sefer at hand and leave it to the reader to do the rest of the groundwork. Most of these Sefarim are readily available and portions of many of them are printed in the back of the standard Masechet Berachot.<ref>As an aside, Rav Hershel Schachter ([http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/852308/rabbi-hershel-schachter/sanhedrin-73-psulei-edus-chiddush-of-edim-zomemim-yedias-hataaroves-tumat-yimei-leidah/ Sanhedrin 5775 #73]) is of the opinion that Klalim are ''postscriptive,'' not prescriptive, meaning the later generations voted on each issue and the results indicated that in certain situations a specific Tanna's position was usually followed. Thus they established the Klal as a Siman, not a Sibah, for deciding a Machaloket, but, of course, there are exceptions. This is just the ''general'' rule. This position is based on the writings of [https://www.yu.edu/riets/about/mission-history/historic-roshei/elazar-meir-preil Rav Elazar Meir Preil] in [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=943&st=&pgnum=354 HaMaor (vol. 1 Shu"t Siman 78:6)]</ref> | Over the centuries, various works, such as Mevo HaTalmud, Halichot Olam, and their commentaries were compiled summarizing the rules and weighing them against one another. Often, their discussions consist of a deluge of citations proving or disproving a point by referencing sugyot spanning the entire corpus of Talmudic literature. Though adding all of those citations to this page would be heplful, thanks to the Sefaria plugin, due to the tediousness of the endeavor, as a minimum, we will suffice by quoting the Klalim Sefer at hand and leave it to the reader to do the rest of the groundwork. Most of these Sefarim are readily available and portions of many of them are printed in the back of the standard Masechet Berachot.<ref>As an aside, Rav Hershel Schachter ([http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/852308/rabbi-hershel-schachter/sanhedrin-73-psulei-edus-chiddush-of-edim-zomemim-yedias-hataaroves-tumat-yimei-leidah/ Sanhedrin 5775 #73]) is of the opinion that Klalim are ''postscriptive,'' not prescriptive, meaning the later generations voted on each issue and the results indicated that in certain situations a specific Tanna's position was usually followed. Thus they established the Klal as a Siman, not a Sibah, for deciding a Machaloket, but, of course, there are exceptions. This is just the ''general'' rule. This position is based on the writings of [https://www.yu.edu/riets/about/mission-history/historic-roshei/elazar-meir-preil Rav Elazar Meir Preil] in [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=943&st=&pgnum=354 HaMaor (vol. 1 Shu"t Siman 78:6)]</ref> | ||
=History of the Talmud= | ==History of the Talmud== | ||
# According to some, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi condensed Shas into six Sedarim, but others content that was done already by Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel.<ref>Shem HaGedolim (Gedolim, Kuntress Acharon, Resh 2)</ref> | # According to some, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi condensed Shas into six Sedarim, but others content that was done already by Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel.<ref>Shem HaGedolim (Gedolim, Kuntress Acharon, Resh 2)</ref> | ||
