Learn Talmud
How to Use the Talmud
Published on 1. October 1995
153 pages
978-1-4616-2934-4 (ISBN)
Description
Judith Abrams, author of the highly acclaimed The Talmud for Beginners, Volumes I & II, creates yet another way of making Talmud study easy and accessible for the novice. Rabbi Abrams has chosen to work with the Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud, edited and with commentary by Adin Steinsaltz, one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume is a must for both student and teacher.
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Edition
Special edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Special edition
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-2934-4 (9781461629344)
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10/1995
Jason Aronson Publishers
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Aknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Having a Hard Time Getting Started?
- Talmud Study and Relationships
- I Am Lovable, I Am Capable
- The Trap of the Intellect
- Feeling All Right about Feeling Uncomfortable
- Feeling All Right about Laughing
- Reading Right to Left and Around
- The Reference Guide
- A New Definition of Progress
- Studying in Partnership
- Setting Up an Environment for Study
- Talmud Study as a Personal Journey
- Some Basic Terms
- The Real Story on Ritual Purity and Impurity
- Tithes and Laws of Jewish Agriculture
- Priests and Levites in Ancient Israel
- How to Use this Book
- How the Numbers and Difficulty Factors Work
- Chapter 2. Course Outlines
- Talmud on a Budget: Six Courses
- Stories of the Sages
- Midrash and Torah Interpretation
- The World of the Sages: The History I Anthropology of That Era
- How to be a Decent Person: Menschlichkeit 101
- A Course in Business Ethics
- A Course on Women
- By Volume
- By Difficulty Factor
- Chapter 3. The Passages
- 1. Clearing Ancient Credit Reports
- 2. Losing and Finding
- 3. A Rabbi's Honesty
- 4. What is Stealing?
- 5. Torah Scrolls: A Special Case
- 6. Above the Law
- 7. The Art of the Drash
- 8. Your Parents vs. God
- 9. Teacher as Parent
- 10. Business Advice
- 11. What is Owning? Acquiring? Money?
- 12. The Commerce of Perceptions and Feelings
- 13. Everything is Connected: A Mystical Midrash
- 14. No Insider Trading and Other Rules of Fairness in Finances
- 15. Suffering and Sages
- 16. Spiritualizing the Concrete: What is a House?
- 17. Concretizing the Spiritual: What is a Blessing?
- 18. Who is Needy?
- 19. The Fragrance of the World to Come
- 20. Weddings and Funerals
- 21. Truth or Tact?
- 22. "Who is a Jew?" and "Consequences of Inappropriate Sexual Intercourse
- 23. A Judaism that Responds to the Times: The Dictates of Usha
- 24. A Wife's Obligations to Her Husband
- 25. How Often to have Sex and Love Stories of the Sages
- Chapter 4. Material from Volumes Still to Come
- 26. How to Give Charity
- 27. How to Deal with Persons with a Dread Disease
- 28. Dying with Dignity
- 29. On the Dangers of Taking Bribes
- 30. On the Merits of the Land of Israel and the World to Come
- For Further Reading
- An Invitation
- Index
- About the Author
