In Understanding the Talmud: A Modern Reader's Guide for Study, Rabbi Edward S. Boraz presents a thoughtful introduction to the Talmud designed for study by the untrained reader. Using a unique approach, Rabbi Boraz focuses on a specific selection from one tractate of the Talmud, allowing readers to uncover the moral and theological concerns of the text. The portion he has selected comes from the tractate Bava Metziah and deals with the conditions under which an oath may be administered in a civ...
Rashi's Torah Commentary draws upon comments made by Rashi throughout each of the Torah portions in the Five Books of Moses and extracts the basic thoughts, ideas, and values of Judaism that are embedded in each of his brief comments. The author, Pinchas Doron, fully develops these ideas and shows how Rashi's Torah commentary attained such unparalleled regard. Many supercommentaries on Rashi deal with specific questions about his writings. By contrast, the present volume concentrates entirely o...
After hours of careful thought, the Yeshiva administration posted a hand-lettered sign outside the cafeteria door. THE YESHIVA PROVIDES FOOD FOR ONE PORTION ONLY NO STUDENT IS PERMITTED TO STAND IN LINE FOR SECOND PORTION By the time I finished lunch, I noticed that some student had altered the sign in a subtle, Talmudic manner: THE YESHIVA PROVIDES FOOD FOR ONE PORTION ONLY? NO! STUDENT IS PERMITTED TO STAND IN LINE FOR SECOND PORTION. The Sea of Talmud is a brief introduction to the...
Bava Kamma Prakim 3 & 6 - The Complete Linear Translation
by Rabbi Naftoli Eisemann
The Archko Volume or the Archeological Writings of the Sanhedrim and Talmuds of the Jews
by James, McIntosh
Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism (Studies in Judaism)
by Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner
"To some readers of this book, the Talmud represents little more than a famous Jewish book. But people want to know about a book that, they are told, defines Judaism. Everyman's Talmud is the right place to begin not only to learn about Judaism in general but to meet the substance of the Talmud in particular . . . In time to come, Cohen's book will find its companion-though I do not anticipate it will ever require a successor for what it accomplishes with elegance and intelligence: a systematic...
How Important Was the Destruction of the Second Temple in the Formation of Rabbinic Judaism? (Studies in Judaism)
by Jacob Neusner
The destruction of the First Temple (586 B.C.E.), destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), and the defeat of the Bar Kokhba (132-135 C.E.) are discussed in great detail in the covenantal theology of the Torah and Scripture. In this new work, Jacob Neusner uses extensive textual evidence to explore the importance of the second temple's destruction and the aforementioned events in the creation of Rabbinic Judaism. Neusner ultimately proposes that the destruction of the second temple merely rein...