Grow with Gemara
Grow with Gemara

Author: Haim Perlmutter

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781568713601

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This indispensable new guide, developed by seasoned educator and author of Tools for Tosafos, provides an easy-to-follow method for both experienced and beginning learners in understanding the rhythm and reason of Gemara. The author shows how to get a feel for Gemara and recognize the various components of Talmudic discussion: the cut-and-thrust "battle" between the various sources, the simple dialogue, the "round-table discussion." This invaluable handbook can help everyone develop the skill to transform their Gemara learning into a satisfying and challenging experience.

Ein Yaakov
Ein Yaakov

Author: Jacob ben Solomon Ibn Ḥabib

Publisher: Jason Aronson

Published: 1999-10

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13: 0765760827

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This is the only complete English translation of the classic Jewish text known as Ein Yaakov. Ein Yaakov is a collection of all the agaddah (the non-legal) material of the Talmud, compiled by Rabbi Yaakov ibn Chaviv, the fifteenth century talmudist. Scattered among the more than 2,700 pages of the Talmud, aggadah focuses on the ethical and inspirational aspects of the Torah way of life. Through a wealth of homilies, anecdotes, allegories, pithy sayings, and interpretations of biblical verses, it has been said that the aggadah brings you closer to God and his Torah.

Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara
Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara

Author: David Halivni

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0674573706

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The initial impetus for writing this book was the desire to understand more fully and completely the contribution of the redactors of the Talmud, the Stammaim. It was this desire to appreciate the redactors' innovations along with the indebtedness to their predecessors that made me reexamine the nature of both Midrashic and Mishnaic forms, place them in their proper historical perspective, and relate them to the source of all Jewish knowledge, the Bible.

Rereading The Rabbis
Rereading The Rabbis

Author: Judith Hauptman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-11

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0429966202

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Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the

The Essential Talmud
The Essential Talmud

Author: Adin Steinsaltz

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780465020638

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An Israeli rabbi and scholar conveys the spirit of the Talmud as he treats its composition, traditions, structure, and laws

Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment
Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment

Author: Daniel Chanan Matt

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780809123872

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This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.