While the Jewish Bible is the most acclaimed book ever written, its companion text, The Talmud, is perhaps one of the most maligned religious texts ever. From after it was canonized until today, ...

Reading Talmud requires sophisticated textual interpretive abilities and has its own particular characteristics. But how do students learn to read Talmud? How can we assess that process? What can we ...

You don’t have to know Hebrew or Aramaic any more to become a talmudic scholar. Indeed, say those behind the Schottenstein Artscroll English translation of the Talmud — whose 73rd and final volume ...

The People’s Talmud entries are not cumbersome translations of the Talmud but narratives that express the Talmud’s point in the language of today. The body and the soul of the Jewish nation are in ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me. By Michael David Lukas In late 2019, I came upon an article about Daf Yomi — the practice of reading a page of the Talmud every day over ...

The distinguished Penguin Classics imprint began in 1946 with a translation of “The Odyssey,” and it has published more than 1,300 titles since, under the motto: “The best books ever written.” The ...

An article which looks at the movement for Reform Judaism, its history, characteristics and the future. The Reform movement began in Germany in 1819, but emerged independently in Britain in 1842 with ...

“The words of the Torah should be burned rather than entrusted to women.” This is the stinging opinion of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, a second-century Jewish scholar, as expressed in the Talmud, a ...

During the Lenten season of 2004 there was considerable fury over Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ and its depiction of Jewish leaders conspiring to hand Jesus over to the Romans for ...

In the Talmud, a pagan asks the first-century B.C. sage Hillel the Elder to teach him the whole Torah while he stands on one foot. Hillel replies with the Golden Rule: “That which is hateful to you, ...