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The reading of religious texts and reaching a clear understanding
BS”D Being a religious Jew and an academic student of religions, can sometimes present you for some interesting reactions, especially when you live in a society like the Israeli, where the idea… more →
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Mishnah
wrote 1 month ago: Mishnah kommer af det hebraiske ord for ”gentage” (shanah – שנה), hvilket også indikerer at Mishnah … more →
Velkommen til Talmud-Bloggen
wrote 1 month ago: Velkommen til Talmud-bloggen. Denne blog vil fokusere på Talmud og emner i relation til Talmud, såso … more →
The Sweetness of מרחשוון
wrote 7 months ago: In traipsing through the Jewish calendar, year after year, we as a people find ourselves riding a se … more →
The Talmud Blog Hosts Zvi Septimus
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wrote 7 months ago: It’s 10:00pm in New York, and, like many others, I’m watching the debate. But there … more →
The Talmud in the Digital Age: Fragments From the Cutting Room Floor- Shai Secunda and Elli Fischer
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wrote 8 months ago: The most recent issue of the Jewish Review of Books is now on the stands and online. On the cover of … more →
The reading of religious texts and reaching a clear understanding
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wrote 8 months ago: BS”D Being a religious Jew and an academic student of religions, can sometimes present you fo … more →
Updates to the Lieberman Databases
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wrote 9 months ago: I can’t claim to be much of a sports guy. Yes, I enjoy running, and I joined a makeshift ultim … more →
Doing Daf Yomi- Guest Post by Yaakov Elman
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wrote 9 months ago: This post, a first in what we hope will be a series on the Daf Yomi as its 12th cycle comes to a clo … more →
What is a Redactor?
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wrote 10 months ago: We are often told that a good scholar has to consistently and continually question the validity of h … more →
Studying the Talmud – An Overview over the Daf
wrote 12 months ago: BS”D Before I begin on the first mishnah it would be a good idea to give an overview over a t … more →
Studying the Talmud
wrote 12 months ago: BS”D Something I have been thinking about for a long time, and which I have promised to per video bu … more →
Between Words and Ideas in the Reading of The Bavli
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wrote 1 year ago: Amidst much fanfare, immigration lawyer and daf-yomi class teacher Daniel Retter published his index … more →
You Rejoice - though not Me: Some Notes on bMeg 10b and its Parallels
wrote 1 year ago: Lucas Cranach the Elder 'Untergang des Pharao im Roten Meer' (Germany, 1530) Does God rejoice at the … more →
The Babylonian Talmud, Now in Arabic
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wrote 1 year ago: As reported in such news outlets as the Jerusalem Post, Yeshiva World News, and PaleoJudaica, a new … more →
Comparative study on the law schools and overall structure of Islam and Judaism
wrote 1 year ago: BS”D In Islam, when talking about Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh, which is normally translated a … more →
The Bible in the Bavli: Some First Numbers- Guest Post by Michael Satlow
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wrote 1 year ago: Over the past few months, as noted earlier, with the help of research assistants I have been compili … more →
Between Kamza and Bar Kamzora – Part III
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wrote 1 year ago: BS”D As the awake reader might have noticed, the title have changed slightly during the three posts … more →
Between Kamza and Bar Kamza - Part II
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wrote 1 year ago: BS”D The next part of the account on Kamtza and Bar Kamtza we are going to deal with, i … more →
Between Bar Kamza and Bar Kamzora
wrote 1 year ago: BS”D Though it’s not totally related to the former comparative studies of the Talmuds, t … more →
