Koren Talmud Bavli V12b: Moed Katan, Daf 13b-29a, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part 3 (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity)
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Tractate Qiddusin (Studia Judaica)
This volume concludes the edition, translation, and commentary of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud. The pentateuchal expression lqkh 'ssh "to take as wife" is more correctly translated either as "to acquire as wife" or "to select as wife". The Tractate Qiddusin deals with all aspects of acquisition as well as the permissible selections of wives and the consequences of illicit relations.
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their extensive discussions constitute the bulk of what we now know as the Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly difficult and has accumulated numerous commentaries over the centuries since it first appeared. Recent trans...
Maimonides' Hidden Torah Commentary -- Volume 3 - Leviticus
by Michael Leo Samuel
The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince
by Dov Zakheim
Koren Talmud Bavli V6a: Yoma, Daf 2a-28a, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Wisdom of Love, The: Man, Woman and God in Jewish Canonical Literature
by Naftali Rothenberg
Koren Talmud Bavli V9b: Rosh Hashana, Daf 22a-Daf 33a, Noe Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Tractate Ketubot (Studia Judaica, #34)
The Tractate Ketubot ("marriage contracts") discusses inter alia the sum specified at the time of marriage to be paid in the event of divorce or the husband's death, together with the mutual obligations of man and wife, the wife's property, the law of inheritance in the female line and the widow's rights. The Tractate Nidda ("Female impurity") regulates conduct during menstruation (cf. Lev 15:19ff) and after birth (Lev 12); further topics are women's life stages, puberty and various medical ques...