The Wisdom of the Talmud
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The Wisdom of the Talmud

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  1. 182 pages
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eBook - ePub

The Wisdom of the Talmud

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About this book

 


Discover the ancient wisdom and historical influence of a cornerstone of Judaism
 
The Wisdom of the Talmud presents a thorough history and overview of the Talmud, the rabbinical commentary on the Torah that was developed in the Jewish academies of Palestine and Babylonia. From the close of the Biblical canon to the end of the fifth century, Jewish scholars studied the scripture and worked to develop—and debate—supplementary understandings of the Torah's directions on a variety of topics. From man's purpose and miracles, to marriage and wellness, to consciousness and community, the Talmud considers what it means to practice faith on a daily basis and through a changing world. This book is an essential and approachable guide for understanding how interpretation of the Torah has guided Jewish life for thousands of years.
 
This ebook features a new foreword, image gallery, and list of proverbs and sayings of the rabbis.

 

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NOTES
Introduction
1 Beer ha-Golah, ch.7.
2 Vol. V, p. 773.
3 See A. B. Tager, The Decay of Czarism. The Beiliss Trial, Based on Unpublished Materials in The Russian Archives, Philadelphia, 1935.
4 This work is available in the original Polish and in a German translation by Minna Safier, published in Vienna, 1937.
5 A Commentary on the Palestinian Talmud, New York, 1941, Vol. 1, pp. XXXIII, XLIII.
The Talmud as Literature
1 Jebamot 90b; Moed Katan 9a.*
2 Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 4:2.**
3 Rosh ha-Shanah 25b.
4 Baba Mezia 59b.
5 Sanhedrin 27b.
6 Mishnah, Baba Mezia 9:13; Kiddushin 24a.
* The citation of sources does not always follow the consecutive order of the volumes, but corresponds to the order in which these sources were used.
** Quotations from the Palestinian Talmud are prefaced by the term Yerushalmi.
All other quotations are from the Babylonian Talmud.
7 Mishnah, Shebiit 10:2,3. Cf. Gittin 37b.
8 Makkot 4b; Sanhedrin 54b.
9 Yoma 85b; Mishnah, Berakot 9:5.
10 Genesis Rabbah 39:21; Sanhedrin 93b; Baba Batra 15a.
11 Sanhedrin 39a; Baba Kamma 38a.
12 Mekilta on Exodus 14:15, 18:12, 21:14; Sifre on Deut. 11:13. Cf. however the analysis of S. Zeitlin, “The Halaka: Introduction to Tannaitic Jurisprudence,” The Jewish Quarterly Review, XXXIV, I (July 1948), pp. 14-21.
13 Mishnah, Yoma 1:1, 2, and Yoma 18a; Mishnah Yoma 8:5 and Yoma 83a.
14 Mishnah, Yoma 8:7, and Yoma 85a, 85b.
15 Mishnah, Baba Mezia 2:4, and Yerushalmi Baba Mezia 2:5.
The Forerunners of the Talmud
1 Ezra 7:11, Psalm 9:2,14,19:2,50:16.
2 Genesis 18:22 and Genesis Rabbah, ad locumt.
3 Abot 1:1, 2.
4 Perushim is a passive construction of the verb parosh, but Talmudic Hebrew frequently uses the passive form with an active meaning as in Mishnah, Berakot 4:5; Tosefta Berakot 2:6, 3:18; Ketubot 26a, 66b.
5 Abot 1:4,1:6,1:7.
6 Megillat Taanit 4.
7 Josephus, Antiquities XIII 10:6.
8 Josephus, Antiquities XIII 10:5-6; Kiddushin 66a; Sanhedrin 19a.
9 Shabbat 31a.
10 Gittin 36b.
11 Abot 1:10; Mishnah, Nedarim 3:4.
12 Yoma 39a.
13 Antiquities XX 9:7.
14 Mishnah, Yoma 1:1.
15 Pesahim 57a.
16 Pesahim 57a; Yoma 35b.
17 Antiquities XX 8:8, 9:2.
18 Josephus, Wars II 8:1 and Antiquities XVIII 1:6.
19 Josephus, Wars II 17:6, 16:2,17:4.
20 Josephus, Wars IV 3:10, 6:1; Vita 35.
21 Josephus, Wars, Preface 2.
22 Yerushalmi Nedarim 5, end; Berakot 17a, 28b; Abot 2:8; Sukkah 28a; Tosefta Parah 4:7.
23 Gittin 56b; Abot de Rabbi Nathan, ch. 4; Rosh haShanah 29b, 30a.
The Talmud in Its Historical Setting
1 Tosefta Baba Kamma 9:30; Shabbat 151a.
2 Jebamot 63b; Tosefta Sotah 15:11-13...

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. FOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION
  5. PROVERBS AND SAYINGS OF THE RABBIS
  6. IMAGE GALLERY
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. THE TALMUD AS LITERATURE
  9. THE FORERUNNERS OF THE TALMUD
  10. THE TALMUD IN ITS HISTORICAL SETTING
  11. THE THEOLOGICAL ELEMENTS IN THE TALMUD
  12. SOCIAL ETHICS IN THE TALMUD
  13. PERSONAL MORALITY IN THE TALMUD
  14. THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE TALMUD
  15. HUMAN WISDOM IN THE TALMUD
  16. NOTES
  17. COPYRIGHT PAGE