I know of no work that more readily opens this classic of Judaic learning to the general reader." -The Key Reporter The appearance in English of nine of Levinas's essays on talmudic discourse, collected and beautifully translated by Aronowicz, is an important occasion.... These essays are crucial to the interpretation of Levinas's work more generally, [and] Aronowicz's excellent introduction and occasional notes are very helpful in making this work accessible to those unacquainted with either T...
Introduction to Talmud Study
The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy after Heartbreak
by Charles S. Sherman
"A wise, uplifting memoir about a rabbi's search for understanding and his discovery of hope and joy after his young son suffered a catastrophic brain-stem stroke that left him a quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator for each breath."--Amazon.com.
Koren Talmud Bavli V7a: Sukka, Daf 2a-20b, Noeי Color Pb, H/E
by Adin Steinsaltz
Talmudic Anthology in Three Volumes (Realms of Judaism S., v. 54)
by Jacob Neusner
This anthology sets forth, in three volumes, a selection of Talmudic discussions of problems of enduring social importance. Utilizing the categories that uniformly serve in the description, analysis, and interpretation of a religion that sets forth a theory of the social order, in this case, a Judaism, we ask about how the Talmud of Babylonia discusses topics concerning Torah, God, and Israel. Those categories in their native and classical setting speak of o1! God's o2! revealing the Torah o3! t...
The Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism (Brill Reference Library of Judaism, #12)
by Professor of Religion Jacob Neusner
Long Live the Rebbe King Moshiach Forever
by R Menachem M Schneerson Shlita
Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegomenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of law. This book explores the surprising way Maimonides put this tradition to use and his possible rationale for using such a tradition. It also explores many of the philosophical and ethical ideas anim...
In the Mishnah (ca. 200 C.E.), the Tosefta (ca. 300 C.E.), and the commentaries that joined them-the Yerushalmi, the Talmud of the Land of Israel (ca. 400) and the Bavli, and the Talmud of Babylonia (ca. 600)-the law of Judaism is outlined topic by topic. The exposition of these topics, however, is shaped in part by a generic analytical program. The hermeneutics of the Halakhah of the formative canon guides the Rabbinic sages to say the same thing about many things. Specifically, issues of a pat...
Come and Hear - What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud
by Adam Kirsch
Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi-a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for 2,711 days, or about seven and a half years-Adam Kirsch approached Tablet magazine to write a weekly column about his own Daf Yomi experience. An avowedly secular Jew, Kirsch did not have a religious source for his interest in the Talmud; rather, as a student of Jewish literature and history, he came to realize that he couldn't fully explore these s...
Pirkei Avot Coloring Book for Jewish Adults and Teenagers
by Joanna Maria and Jewish Chai Life
[Masekhet Taanit] = (Schottenstein Edition Talmud Bavli - English Edition)
by Hersh Goldwurm, Mordechai Kuber, and Michoel Weiner
The Mishnah (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, #46)
by Jacob Neusner
In his brilliant introduction on the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner asks: How do you read a book that does not identify its author, tell you where it comes from, or explain why it was written - a book without a preface? And how do you identify a book with neither a beginning nor end, lacking table of contents and title? The answer is you just begin and let the author of the book lead you by paying attention to the information that the author does give, to the signals that the writer sets out. As Neusner...