The Kotzk Podcast
Kotzk Podcast Ep008: We have books, we don't need teachers or permission to teach
In the time of the Mishnah and Talmud, the Halachic tradition was passed down orally, from teacher to student. The canonization of the Talmud in written form provided new pathways for the dissemination of Rabbinic teaching, and by the time of the Tosafist