What is the Tosefta?

When was the Tosefta composed, and where did it come from? Did Rabbi Yohanan know the Tosefta? Did the Geonim? And, of course, why learn it?Not what I (Johanan) thought. Gavriel explains.

Some things we reference in the podcast:

* Article by ‘YU person’ whose name escaped us (Yaakov Elman)

* The project proposed by Gavriel as a way to better texts of the Oral Torah (aka the ‘Mishna Project’)

* More about the birkat kohanim example we discuss

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