Have you ever been on a hike, reached a scene that takes your breath away, and suddenly you were hit by the beauty in front of you? Perhaps you were sitting and thinking - or brooding - in your room during a quiet moment, and out of sudden frustration you looked around, searching for it? There is something there! But what is it? Then suddenly, you realize that "it" is life, and you are hit by the question What is it about life? Where does it all come from? Is life accident or design? Is there a...
Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud (Judaism and Jewish Life)
by Shulamit Valler
"The Babylonian Talmud" and the "Jerusalem Talmud" show a myriad of sorrowful situations in various levels and circumstances and a variety of human behavior in these situations. The causes and expressions of sorrow amongst the Sages are different from its parallels amongst common people or women. The descriptions of sorrow vary between the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud. "Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud" discusses more than 50 stories from both the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud focu...
Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensions of wisdom as they are delineated in Jewish sources from the Persian, Hellenistic and early Roman eras. Considering a diverse body of texts beyond later canonical boundaries, the book demonstrates that wisdom features not as an abstract quality, but as something to be performed and exercised at both the individual and community level. The analysis specifically concentrate...
Koren Talmud Bavli, Berkahot Volume 1d, Daf 51b-64a, Noe Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
The Tosefta, Translated from the Hebrew (Tosefta, Translated from the Hebrew, #6)
by Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner
This detailed, systematic classification of Rabbinic narrative supplies these facts concerning the classification of narratives and their regularities: [1] what are the types and forms of narrative in a given document? [2] how are these distinctive types and forms of narrative distributed across the canonical documents of the formative age, the first six centuries C.E.? The answers for the documentary preferences are in Volumes One through Three, for the Mishnah-Tosefta, the Tannaite Midrash-com...
The Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism (Brill Reference Library of Judaism, #12)
by Jacob Neusner
History provides one way of marking time, but there are others, like the Judaism of the dual Torah, set forth in the Rabbinic literature from the Mishnah through the Talmud of Babylonia, which tells the story of how a historical way of thinking about past, present, and future, time and eternity, the here and now in relationship to the ages gave way to another mode of thought altogether. At stake are [1] a conception of time different from the historical one and [2] premises on how to take the...