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The first collaborative book was 5,000 Years of Jewish Wisdom: Secrets of the Talmud Scriptures, created over a three-day period in 1968 and published in 1971. The book contains actual stories from the Talmud, proverbs, ethics, Jewish legal material, biographies of Talmudic rabbis, and personal stories about Tokayer and his family.
The series is mainly funded by the Research Authority at Herzog College and the World Union of Jewish Studies. Additional support is received by other foundations including the Israel Science Foundation, The Israeli Lottery Council for Culture and Arts- Mifal HaPayis, The Legacy Committee Estates and Trusts Department of the State of Israel, the Amalia and Rabbi Moshe Rosen Foundation and The ...
The Soncino Talmud was published from 1935–1952, [10] under the general editorship of Rabbi Isidore Epstein. [11] The translation is distributed both on its own (18 volumes) and in a parallel text edition (35 volumes), in which each English page faces the Aramaic /Hebrew page; it was available also on CD-ROM , as below.
Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire corpus of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. [1] The term typically refers to literature from the Talmudic era (70–640 CE), [2] as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writings.
The Talmud is organized into six sedarim, or "orders," which include Zeraim, Moed, Nashim, Nezikin, Kodshim, and Taharot. [1] In 1923, Polish Rabbi Meir Shapiro introduced a contemporary practice called "Daf Yomi," or "daily page," wherein participants study one page of the Talmud daily in cycles lasting seven and a half years each. This ...
The Rishonim, the leading rabbis of the Middle Ages after the Geonim, have left many written Halakhic works, including the Piskei HaRosh of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel [30] and the Sefer HaHalakhot of Rabbi Yitzchak Alfasi, [31] both of which are often published in the back of the Talmud; and the Arba'ah Turim, also known as the Tur, of Rabbi ...
The Talmud itself gives no information concerning the origin of the middot, although the Geonim regarded them as Sinaitic (הלכה למשה מסיני, "Law given to Moses at Mount Sinai"; comp. Rabbi Samson of Chinon in his Sefer HaKeritot).
The Legends of the Jews is a chronological compilation of aggadah from hundreds of biblical legends in Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash.The compilation consists of seven volumes (four volumes of narrative texts and two volumes of footnotes with a volume of index) synthesized by Louis Ginzberg in a manuscript written in the German language.