What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me. By Michael David Lukas In late 2019, I came upon an article ...
For many years I have studied daf yomi, the daily page of Talmud, and with a chavruta [study partner]; it has shaped who I am. Motivated by my own needs, and together with others, I founded Alma ...
He was a child prodigy in pre war Hungary and by the time he had reached his Bar Mitzvah he had memorized hundreds of pages of Talmud. We agreed to meet at Hebrew University after one of his seminars.
Ideas are expounded upon, concepts are expanded — such is the nature of Jewish debate and dialogue. The Talmud page spans two thousand years. It is not linear but dialogical. It has a multi-linear ...
Rather than taking the Talmud's discursive structure as a sign for orality ... List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter ...
The Daf Yomi, a seven-year cycle of studying a page of Talmud each day, was initiated on Rosh Hashanah by Rabbi Meir Shapira ...
A reservist has been suspended after he was filmed pretending to give a Talmud lecture to at least three bound and blindfolded men, the Israel Defense Forces says. The soldier who filmed the scene, ...
Ideas are expounded upon, concepts are expanded – such is the nature of Jewish debate and dialogue. The Talmud page spans two thousand years. It is not linear but dialogical. It has a multi-linear ...