[Avodah] Is the term "He died before his time" correct?

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Mon Oct 27 11:04:18 PDT 2008


Danny Schoemann wrote:

> Correct. The last Tosafos ("Hava Shachiach") on that page (Chagiga 4b)
> says: Miriam Megadla Neshaya - who lived in the time of the 2nd Bayis
> - was the mother of Ploni.

That's odd, because Tosfos in Shabbos proves that her son, Ben Stada,
couldn't have been Jesus, because she was the wife of Papos ben Yehudah,
who shared a cell with R Akiva, and was therefore well after the churban.

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Zev Sero               Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
zev at sero.name          interpretation of the Constitution.
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