If the Megilah is Greek to you – that could be okay! The Mishna states that a Jew should hear the reading of the Megilah in Hebrew if he understands Hebrew. But for people who do not understand Hebrew ...

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 ...

Ancient Jewish wisdom provides a framework for the ethos of scholarship. The Talmud, which is a compilation of the discussions regarding biblical Jewish law and theology, relays the following ...

What has the Talmud ever done for us? This is a pertinent question for those generations of Jewish schoolchildren forced to pore over its text to no discernible effect on their later secular lives.

Thunder over Europe which ended in nothing less than the splitting of the Catholic Church was the result of a proposed burning of Jewish books in Germany in 1510. Professor Alexander Marx of the ...

If you asked most people what the Talmud is, they would probably say it’s a book of laws. That is only partially true: It’s an inter-generational discussion about Jewish law, with the formal ...

Why should Christians feel interested in the Talmud? M. ERNEST RENAN has achieved one of the greatest literary successes of our age in publishing a life of Jesus. It is not a work of profound research ...

Among devout Orthodox Jews, the intense study of Talmud is no longer just a man's world. Women are increasingly delving into this central religious work, and American expats in Israel are at the ...

In one of many oddball stories in the Talmud, the commentary on the Hebrew Bible, we’re told about an ancient diss: one rabbi tells another rabbi that his voice is so bad that if the Holy Temple were ...