
Learn Talmud
Description
Alles über E-Books | Antworten auf Fragen rund um E-Books, Kopierschutz und Dateiformate finden Sie in unserem Info- & Hilfebereich.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions

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
System requirements
File format: PDF
Copy-Protection: Adobe-DRM (Digital Rights Management)
System requirements:
- Computer (Windows; MacOS X; Linux): Install the free reader Adobe Digital Editions prior to download (see eBook Help).
- Tablet/smartphone (Android; iOS): Install the free app Adobe Digital Editions or the app PocketBook before downloading (see eBook Help).
- E-reader: Bookeen, Kobo, Pocketbook, Sony, Tolino and many more (only limited: Kindle).
The file format PDF always displays a book page identically on any hardware. This makes PDF suitable for complex layouts such as those used in textbooks and reference books (images, tables, columns, footnotes). Unfortunately, on the small screens of e-readers or smartphones, PDFs are rather annoying, requiring too much scrolling.
This eBook uses Adobe-DRM, a „hard” copy protection. If the necessary requirements are not met, unfortunately you will not be able to open the eBook. You will therefore need to prepare your reading hardware before downloading.
Please note: We strongly recommend that you authorise using your personal Adobe ID after installation of any reading software.
For more information, see our eBook Help page.