He is called Rabbi Abba only in the tannaitic literature ( for instance, Tosefta, Beitzah 1: 7 ), where a number of his sayings are preserved.

The seven laws listed by the Tosefta and the Talmud are

The baraitot cited in the Gemara are often quotations from the Tosefta ( a tannaitic compendium of halakha parallel to the Mishnah ) and the Halakhic Midrashim ( specifically Mekhilta, Sifra and Sifre ).

The Tosefta often attributes laws that are anonymous in the Mishnah to named Tannaim.

Three manuscripts exist of the Tosefta, they are:

The Mishnah and the Tosefta ( compiled from materials pre-dating the year 200 ) are the earliest extant works of rabbinic literature, expounding and developing Judaism's Oral Law, as well as ethical teachings.

This analysis is often described as " mathematical " in approach ; Adin Steinsaltz makes the analogy of the Amoraim as scientists investigating the Halakha, where the Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta and midrash are the phenomena studied.

The only quotes still extant from this literature are found as quotes within the Mishnah and Tosefta.

The decisions of the Tannaim are contained in the Mishnah, Beraita, Tosefta, and various Midrash compilations.

Collections of halakot of the second sort are the Mishnah and the Tosefta ; compilations of the first sort are the halakhic midrashim.

Many mishnayot ( single paragraph units ) in the Mishnah and in the Tosefta are midrashic halakot.

The main collections of Baraita are the Tosefta, and the Halakhic Midrashim ( Mekhilta, Sifra and Sifre ).

The contents of the Mishnah with the corresponding sections of the Tosefta are as follows:

The primary references to Yeshu are found only in uncensored texts of the Babylonian Talmud and the Tosefta.

The oldest works in which references to Yeshu occur are the Tosefta and the Talmud, although some scholars consider the references to Yeshu to be post-Talmudic additions.

The earliest undisputed occurrences of the term Yeshu are found in five anecdotes in the Tosefta ( c 200 CE ) and Babylonian Talmud ( c 500 CE ).

In the Tosefta, Chullin 2: 22-24 there are two anecdotes about the min ( heretic ) named Jacob naming his mentor Yeshu ben Pandera ( Yeshu son of Pandera ).

According to Maimonides, scalp and beard nega ' im are characterized by hair loss without any change to the skin of the bald spot The Tosefta, however, maintains that the skin of the bald spot does indeed become altered in a negah.

Nashim ( Hebrew: נשים ) (" Women " or " Wives ") is the third order of the Mishnah ( also of the Tosefta and Talmud ), containing the laws related to women and family life.

The Tosefta on Keilim consists of twenty-five chapters, divided into Bava Kama (" First Gate "), Bava Metzia (" Middle Gate "), and Bava Batra (" Final Gate ") of Keilim.

It is interwoven with his commentary on major parts of the Tosefta.

More recent scholarship, such as that of Yaakov Elman, concludes that since the Tosefta, as we know it, must be dated linguistically as an example of Middle Hebrew 1, it was most likely compiled in early Amoraic times from oral transmission of baraitot., Professor Shamma Friedman, has found that the Tosefta draws on relatively early Tannaitic source material and that parts of the Tosefta predate the Mishnah.

Alberdina Houtman and colleagues theorize that while the Mishnah was compiled in order to establish an authoritative text on halakhic tradition, a more conservative party opposed the exclusion of the rest of tradition and produced the Tosefta to avoid the impression that the written Mishnah was equivalent to the entire oral Torah.

The first was that of Moses Samuel Zuckermandl in 1882, which relied heavily on the Erfurt manuscript of the Tosefta.

Major commentaries on the Tosefta include those by:

Eli Gurevich's English translation and detailed commentary on the Tosefta is in the progress of being written.

One recognizes here the threefold division of the halakic material that emanated from Akiva: ( 1 ) The codified Halakah ( which is Mishnah ); ( 2 ) the Tosefta, which in its original form contains a concise logical argument for the Mishnah, somewhat like the Lebush of Mordecai Jafe on the Shulḥan ' Aruk ; ( 3 ) the halakic Midrash.

* Tosefta and Baraita ( Hebrew ), Maimonides Introduction to the Commentary on the Mishna

( Rodkinson's translation drawing on the Tosefta account paraphrases the reference to Yeshu having taught Jacob by " so taught Jeshu b. Panthyra ", in this case not translating " Yeshu " as " Jesus ".

He also authored a commentary to the works of the Tosefta on the section of Nezikin in the Talmud,

In later times more powerful priests forcibly took possession of the skins from the lesser priests, and it was decreed that the skins should be sold, with the proceeds being given to the Temple in Jerusalem ( Tosefta 19 ) The flesh of the animal was divided according to detailed instructions given by the Talmud ( Tamid 31 ), and would then be placed on the wood on the altar ( which was constantly on fire due the large number of sacrifices carried out daily ), and slowly burnt.

Bruriah was very involved in the halachic discussions of her time, and even challenges her father on a matter of ritual purity ( Tosefta Keilim Bava Kamma 4: 9 ).

She is mentioned at least four times in the Talmudic discourse regarding her law decrees first Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 10a then in Tosefta Pesahim 62b in Babylonian Talmud Eruvin 53b – 54a and Babylonian Talmud Avodah Zarah 18b.

Observance of Sukkot is detailed in the Book of Nehemiah and Leviticus 23: 34-44 in the Bible, the Mishnah ( Sukkah 1: 1 – 5: 8 ); the Tosefta ( Sukkah 1: 1 – 4: 28 ); and the Jerusalem Talmud ( Sukkah 1a –) and Babylonian Talmud ( Sukkah 2a – 56b ).

The traditional view is that the Tosefta should be dated to a period concurrent with or shortly after the redaction of the Mishnah.

Others, such as Hanokh Albeck, theorize that the Tosefta is a later compendium of several baraitot collections which were in use during the Amoraic period.

Rabbinic literature mentions the village in relation to the production of pottery ; in the Tosefta, there is a reference to, " those who make black clay, such as Kefar Hananya and its neighbors.

Curious as is the order of subjects followed in this treatise, in which several mishnaic sources have been combined, the Tosefta follows it, adding comments that form the basis of the Gemara in both Talmuds.

The Tosefta omits the ordinances of Gamliel and of Johanan ben Zakkai, and the dispute of the two leaders of the school-house, nor does it mention anything of the power of any tannaitic dignitary ; the Tosefta is here a product of the time of the Amoraim.

Further, the term tosafot was not applied for the first time to the glosses of Rashi's continuators, but to the Tosefta, the additions to the Mishnah compiled by Judah ha-Nasi I. Tosefta is a Babylonian term, which in Jerusalem writings is replaced by tosafot.

) The term " Yeshu " is not undisputedly attested prior to the Talmud and Tosefta, let alone as a Hebrew original for " Jesus ".

Another title found in the Tosefta and Talmud is ben Stada ( son of Stada ).

This information is paralleled in the Tosefta in Shabbat 11: 15 and Sanhedrin 10: 11 respectively.

Moed ( Hebrew: מועד ) (" Festivals ") is the second Order of the Mishnah, the first written recording of the Oral Torah of the Jewish people ( also the Tosefta and Talmud ).

Kodashim or Qodhashim ( Hebrew קדשים, Holy Things ) is the fifth Order in the Mishna ( also the Tosefta and Talmud ).

Nezikin ( Hebrew: נזיקין, Damages Neziqin ) or Seder Nezikin ( סדר נזיקין, The Order of Damages ) is the fourth Order of the Mishna ( also the Tosefta and Talmud ).