It was chavruta, a method used by Talmud scholars in which pairs of students debate and ask one another questions based on ancient rabbinic texts. “When I read about chavruta, I immediately felt ...

Modern application of Talmudic principles using ETFs focuses on balancing growth and income. Check out the Talmudic investment strategy here.

Tens of thousands of Jews will open their bright new textbooks and embark on a crash course titled Decoding the Talmud, ...

Were it not for [King] David, who was engaged in Torah learning, Yoav would not have been successful in battle, and were it not for Yoav’s skills as a warrior, [King] David would not have been able ...

The Mishnah was formed due to fear that the Jewish people would lose their unity and beliefs if they were not in the Holy City.

Rabbi Leban counts a steady, weekly group of 10 in the Talmud class — which includes Cantor Koll, who made aliyah to Ramat ...

We’ll go back to biblical narrative to focus on the donkey who accompanies Abraham on his journey to sacrifice his son Isaac, and we’ll trace from Palestinian midrash to the Babylonian Talmud a motif ...

The ner tamid burns continuously to show that God is always present. The Talmud states that when ten or more Jews are gathered in prayer, God is present. Jews refer to this group prayer as a minyan.

Chabad centers in Metro Detroit will offer a new six-session course, Decoding the Talmud. This course, by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), aims to demystify the intricate world of the ...

In this week’s Torah portion of Bo, we finish up the story of the 10 plagues.According to the Midrash, one of the principles that we learn from the plagues is “middah k’negged middah,” measure for ...