Bava Batra 8: Rabbinic Exemptions
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The daf discusses why rabbis do not need to contribute to public works and to illustrate their point a story is about Rebbi and his distribution if food during a famine. How is this story suppose to help understood and what is chazal trying to tell us about rabbis and society? A barita details how tzedakah funds and managed and distributed.
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