[3] Many of his halachic rulings are practically relevant, and extensively discussed by later rabbis.
For example, he permits a kohen to pass over an impure place inside a "thrown tent", since it is considered a separate domain (relevant to modern discussions of an airplane flying over a graveyard),[4] and he addresses the question of whether the chadash prohibition applies outside the Land of Israel.
[5] He issued three commands to R' Yehudah HaNasi: not to go out alone at night, not to stand naked before a candle, and not to enter a newly built bathhouse (lest it collapse).
[6] He insists that a convert must show his readiness to accept even the precepts of the sages in their capacity as interpreters of the Law.
[7] On the expression hin tzedek[8] he comments: “Let your yes (Hebrew: hen) be yes, and your no, no.”[9][10] He explains Deuteronomy 8:5 thus: “Dear to God are the afflictions destined for man, for the glory of God rests on whoever they come, as it is said: ‘It is the Lord your God who chastises you’.”[11] He described the peacefulness of Sabbath as follows: “Two angels, a good and a bad one, accompany man on the Sabbath eve from the synagogue into his house.