<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 29, 2007 11:32 AM, Jonathan Baker <<a href="mailto:jjbaker@panix.com">jjbaker@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
From: "Moshe Y. Gluck" <<a href="mailto:mgluck@gmail.com">mgluck@gmail.com</a>><br>> R' AY & CB Walters:<br><br>>> The Geonim say that from the chasimas hatalmud by R' Ashi until the Behag
<br>>> was 350 years.<br><br>>> Now, AFAIK, the Behag was the first post talmudic sefer, he was probably<br>>> from the early gaonim/late saboraim.<br><br>> I believe the She'iltos D'R' Achai Gaon preceeded him. ?
<br><br>Maybe. The Sheiltos and the Siddur R' Amram gaon are about parallel,<br><br><br>Sources: Jewish Encyclopedia.<br><font color="#888888"><br>- name: jon baker <br></font></blockquote></div><br>
AFAIK the She'iltos was the first post Talmudic BOOK.<br><br>And it was the FIRST book in Talmud in SUBJECT order and not in masechta order. Halachos Gedolos and Rif followed the Talmudic order. [although there is some idea that Halachos Gedolos USED to be in subject order but was revfised]
<br clear="all"><br>The masechtos ketannos were also more or less in subject order.<br><br>And boks such as Halachos Gedolos were written primarily for communities outside Bavel. In Bavel the yeshivos LIVED the Talmud and did not write it down right away because they did not need to.
<br><br>and to answer teh original question what did we learn for 350 years?<br>Besides the final redactions of the Talmud, the final touches were put on Tosefta and the aforementioned masechtos ketannos. Thee actaully was a lot of activity going on, perhaps less creative and more editorial.
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