Talk:Sifra

Intro must be redone
This is an encyclopedia not the introduction to an academic paper. 89.138.123.192 (talk) 17:24, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The introduction is indeed encyclopedic; in fact, the article's entire content appears to have been scraped from The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day, Volume 11, pp.330-1.


 * Said encyclopedia may very well be in the Public Domain, but its style is different from what one expects on WP, its 1901 information may be outdated, and its citations are cryptic and have not been converted to WP inline citations. I'm adding the Multiple Issues template to the page to draw attention to some of its problems.


 * I suspect the entire article needs to be rewritten by editors knowledgeable on the topic, rather than someone who came here seeking basic information, like I did. Downstrike (talk) 09:59, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Recommended Deletion
I would seriously recommend deleting the sentence in parentheses, in the sub-section: "The Present Text," which reads: "(Ḳid. 33a cannot be cited in proof, because R. Simeon b. Rebbi can hardly have taught Ḥiyya's Sifra)." The reason here is plain. Rabbi Simeon, the son of Rebbi (R. Yehudah Hanassi), would have lived either during or after the generation of Rabbi Hiyya. This same Rabbi Hiyya was also a contemporary of Rab, and was in fact his uncle, as proven by the Babylonian Talmud (Pesahim 4a), while this same Rab who is believed to have compiled the Sifra and Sifrei, studied under Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi, the father of Rabbi Simeon, as also proven by the Talmud (Hullin 137b). There is, therefore, no reason to doubt the source in Kiddushin 33a. Davidbena (talk) 15:02, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Request Edit - CC-BY English Text
Sefaria has a full English translation of this text, presented in parallel to the original. It's licensed CC-BY, translated by Shraga Silverstein.

I believe that a link to this would fall under section 2 of WP:ELYES.

I have a COI (I work for Sefaria), and have discussed it on WikiProject:Judaism.

I had made the edit directly myself, before understanding the ins-and-outs of how to best request an edit, given my COI.

Link should probably be to here: Sifra

LevEliezer (talk) 08:11, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi there. Your edit was undone by another editor, and as such, there is no clear consensus for its implementation. Discuss the proposed change with the editor in question, and you should hopefully understand the reasons for why the edit was undone, and may not be needed, or ways in which it can be changed to conform to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Regards, VB00 (talk) 07:53, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * MrOllie reverted my initial edits solely because of my COI, not on the merit of the content. I've since discussed with him and with editors in this domain, and generally heard support. LevEliezer (talk) 13:00, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The edit request has now been implemented per consensus at COIN. Regards, VB00 (talk) 14:42, 12 August 2017 (UTC)