What Exactly Is ‘Intertextuality’?

Rabbi Sacks once remarked offhand (in a lecture) that the fancy-schmancy word “intertextuality” just means… Gezeirah Shavah.

Now you know.

(But I don’t think others follow the rule, אין אדם דן גזרה שוה מעצמו.)

Some other articles:

  1. Rabbi Moshe Tendler: Are Swordfish Kosher?
  2. re: REMINDER: Don’t ‘Sell Chametz’ No Matter What!
  3. R’ Elyashiv’s Interesting Excuse for Unjustly Banning Making of a Godol: ‘I Don’t Have Ruach Hakodesh!’
  4. The Word Kalkalah In the Sense of “Basket”
  5. re: Don’t Delay the Mitzvah on Wedding Night!

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