NEW YORK (JTA) — In trying to understand the often esoteric arguments of the Talmud, people often turn to teachers, dictionaries and a range of other study aids. Jesse Freedman has found another ...

Sefaria, a website that aims to put the nearly infinite Jewish canon online for free, has published an acclaimed translation of the Talmud in English. NEW YORK (JTA) — For centuries, studying a ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

Subheader: The inn served travelers between Tiberias and Sepphoris and was significant enough to be mentioned in the Talmud, where it appears in two distinct stories.

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 ...

The Talmud, a collection of teachings, commentaries and debates from rabbis, says that the leader of that group of Jewish fighters entered the temple after recapturing it and found a small remnant ...