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- ↑ Promising Justice: Derrida with Jewish Jurisprudence A Hirvonen - Law and Critique, 2001 - Springer "Thus, those commandments (mitzvot) that come directly from the Torah (de'oraita) and are biblical, are a superior authority to those rabbinic ones which do not come from it (de'rabbanan). The de'oraita ... "
- ↑ The Hebrew source text: "כל המברך ברכה שאינה צריכה עובר משום לא תשא" (Berachot 33a)
- ↑ Mishneh Torah, Berachot 1, 15
- ↑ The Aramaic source text: "ומשום דמברך ברכה שאינה צריכה וקעבר משום בל תשא ליכא דההיא דרשה דרבנן" (Tosafot on Rosh Hashanah 33a)
- ↑ י"ח דרגות בין דאורייתא לדרבנן
- ↑ Babylonian Talmud, Brachot 45b
- ↑ Chullin 104a, 113a
- ↑ Mishneh Torah Hilchot Mamrim 2:9; Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 87:3.
- ↑ "Torah & Rabbinic Law (D'Oraita & d'Rabbanan) - Nishmat - Women's Health and Halacha". Archived from the original on 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
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