Jesus in the Talmud

Healing in the Name of Jesus 53R. Aqiva, of all people, as someone over whose sick eye a (healing) objectwas passed.The Talmudim do not resolve the contradiction between Aqiva’s strictprohibition in the Mishna and the fact, documented in the Tosefta andrelated traditions, that such customs were not only (reluctantly) toleratedby the rabbis but commonplace and even explicitly permitted on Sabbath.An easy way out of this dilemma may be the suggestion made byRashi (and followed by the Soncino translation of the Bavli): whisperingover a serpent or a scorpion does not mean whispering over the bite inflictedby these venomous animals but rather whispering over the animalsthemselves (= charming them) in order to “render them tame and harmless”;4 accordingly, “passing an object over the eye (ma