On the other hand there are those who see the Talmud as the distilled word of God and they study it in what can only be described as a ritualistic way. For them its study is not merely about ...

“That is the entire Torah, and the rest is commentary. Go study.” I’d like to think Hillel and the other Talmudic rabbis ...

4 and will formally graduate in September. “Orthodoxy has long emphasized the value of the study of Talmud,” Schick told JTA in an interview. “But Talmud study, which in yeshivot is the ...

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The Mishnah was formed due to fear that the Jewish people would lose their unity and beliefs if they were not in the Holy City.

Zbrzeżny, a Polish-born lecturer in Second Temple Judaism in the Divinity Department at the University of Aberdeen, participated in the Talmud study during three years of postdoc research in Israel.

(JTA) — British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was disinvited from a major event marking the completion of the Daf Yomi cycle, the 7.5-year project of studying a page of the Talmud every day.

But when it comes to the intellectual heart of the yeshiva, the core activity of Talmud study, the Lakewood model is astonishingly egalitarian and democratic. That egalitarianism doesn’t extend ...

SVARA is a traditionally radical yeshiva dedicated to the serious study of Talmud through the lens of queer experiences. SVARA’s unique pedagogy makes Talmud study in the original accessible—for the ...