The prospect of studying Talmud for a week seemed intimidating to Noah Rubin-Blose, who grew up culturally Jewish and wasn’t too familiar with the Hebrew letters, much less the central texts of ...

Whoever destroys a single life, it is as if they have destroyed the entire world. Whoever saves a single life, it is as if they have saved the entire world. (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a) ...

Now back from her gap year in Israel, Bentley has completed a remarkable achievement in Jewish text study by reading the Talmud — more than 2,700 double-sided pages of densely printed Hebrew and ...

The past decade has seen an upsurge in the study of Talmud by Jewish women. Daf Yomi (“page of the day”) is a system of Talmud study inaugurated in 1920. The brainchild of Rabbi Moshe Menachem ...

A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses ...

The Talmud, which is a compilation of the discussions regarding biblical Jewish law and theology, relays the following discussion: Rabbi Elazar quoted Rabbi Chanina, stating that “students of wise ...

An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial choices, similar to the redactors of Jewish Gemara The post Could AI ...

A 63-volume collection of interpretation, storytelling and debate about how best to live in accordance with the precepts laid out in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud is the primary source of Jewish ...

The Talmud features a mix of biblical verses, Mishna chapters, and other stories and commentaries. Advertisement “Unfortunately, no original manuscript of the Talmud from the time of its ...