The People’s Talmud entries are not cumbersome translations of the Talmud but narratives that express the Talmud’s point in the language of today. The body and the soul of the Jewish nation are in ...

Most people who study Talmud go with the Babylonian one, and pay scant attention to its older, more difficult cousin — the Jerusalem Talmud. Sefaria, the non-profit library, released a new, online ...

Whoever learns halachos every day is assured that he will be a citizen of the World to Come. For it is stated: The ways (halichos) of the world are His. Do not read halichos, but halachos. (Niddah 73a ...

While the Jewish Bible is the most acclaimed book ever written, its companion text, The Talmud, is perhaps one of the most maligned religious texts ever. From after it was canonized until today, ...

JTA — Michelle Farber has spent decades teaching Talmud to Jewish women. But when her first child was born, she was relieved it was a boy. “When my son was born, I said, ‘Good, we had a boy first, ...

Reading Talmud requires sophisticated textual interpretive abilities and has its own particular characteristics. But how do students learn to read Talmud? How can we assess that process? What can we ...

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 ...

After a decade-long break, I am back to studying Talmud. It was my friend Ben who suggested it, about a year ago. “We should learn Gemara sometime,” he said, using the traditional term for Talmud. It ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinzaltz, the acclaimed scholar whose landmark translation of the Talmud enabled a vast readership to access one of Judaism’s most canonical texts, has died.

A petition asked the Modern Orthodox university not to curtail lessons for women in one of Judaism’s most fundamental texts. (JTA) — The future of Talmud study for women at Yeshiva University remains ...