Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary. As a mirror, it includes this world but perhaps also falsifies reality, adapting it to one's own aims and necessities. This book explores the rabbinic concern with texts as the main area of influence of the rabbinic academy in a space between the texts of the past and the real world of the present.
[Masekhet Megilah] = (The Artscroll)
by Gedaliah Zlotowitz and Hersh Goldwurm
In A Beginner's Guide to The Steinsaltz Talmud, Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams selects a fascinating and provocative section from the Talmud and helps students to reap the vast rewards that can be achieved when one encounters Rabbi Steinsaltz's historic, ground-breaking work. With the publication of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, it is now possible for the modern reader to study Judaism's great compendium of Jewish law and legend for the first time. The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition is more than j...
Auf Welche Weise Wurde Die Mishna Geschrieben? (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism, #9)
by Margarete Schluter
Gemora Makkos - Prakim 1 & 2 - Linear Translation Assistant - Menukad
by Rabbi Naftoli Eisemann
Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction, by Rose Levinson, uses the work of four contemporary Israeli authors as a lens into present-day Israel. Discussing the novels of Orly Castel-Bloom, Michal Govrin, Zeruya Shalev, and Yoram Kaniuk, the book argues for a new understanding of today's Israel. Crucial to renewed awareness is a view of the country that jettisons the notion of Israel as an exceptional, sacred state immune from 21st century discontents. Attention is focus...
Tractates Gittin and Nazir (Studia Judaica, #39)
The ninth volume of this edition, translation, and commentary of the Jerusalem Talmud contains two Tractates. The first Tractate, "Documents", treats divorce law and principles of agency when written documents are required. Collateral topics are the rules for documents of manumission, those for sealed documents whose contents may be hidden from witnesses, the rules by which the divorced wife can collect the moneys due her, the requirement that both divorcer and divorcee be of sound mind, and the...
The Talmud of the Land of Israel (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism)
With the publication of "Yerushalmi Pesahim" the University of Chicago Press completes a landmark edition of the Palestinian Talmud, "The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation". Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume translation has been hailed by the "Jewish Spectator" as a "project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism.""Yerushalmi Pesahim" details the specific requirements regarding the preparation for Passover,...
Browse discussion questions Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly imagined fictions, drawing us into the lives of such characters as the woman who risks her life for a sister suspected of adultery; a humble schoolteacher who rescues his village from dro...
Greek in Jewish Palestine/Hellenism in Jewish Palestine
by Saul Lieberman
Elijah the Prophet is one of the most popular and beloved figures in all of Jewish literature. Both as a biblical prophet and a folklore hero, Elijah has fascinated Jews all over the world for centuries. He has served in many different roles, offering guidance on how to live Like a mensch, bringing hope, reconciling family members, rewarding goodness while punishing wickedness, rescuing Jewish communities and worthy individuals, seeing that justice prevails, and signaling the coming of the Messi...
Schottenstein Daf Yomi Ed Talmud English [#04] Shabbos Vol 2 (36b-76b)
Talmud, El