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The Essential Talmud: An Introduction
- Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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The Essential Talmud is a masterful introduction by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud. A book of profound scholarship and concise pedagogy, The Essential Talmud succinctly describes the Talmud's history, structure, and methodology. It summarizes the Talmud's main principles, demonstrates its contemporary relevance, and captures the spirit of this unique and paradoxical sacred text as a human expression of divine law.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- R. Lawson
- 15-06-24
repetitive and slightly frustrating
this is a book that situated the Talmud. it situated it, explaining its importance in Judaism and how and why it came into being. however, it is very general as a rule. it will tell you the types of things covered, the types of people who covered them, and the status of conclusions(definitive/vinding(. however it is quite frustratingly repetitive. an example by be alluding to the 'methods' used by groups of scholars to examine texts and ideas. it may be one group of scholars have different methods. however we don't learn even the rudiments of what these methods were/are, or how they differe.
we learn the Talmud is formed by debate abd understanding requires continuing that debate actively. but we never really get a worked example to understand what this means in practice. the closest we get are some examples of quirky conclusions which seem odd standing alone.
this generality helps initially in getting a broad sense of Subject matter. however it gets increasingly repetitious and sadly ultimately tedious, and overall that means this introduction can't really be judged a success.
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- Max Zachs
- 14-06-22
Mistakes in recording.
There are several mistakes in the recording, where the narration suddenly stops and picks up in a different place.
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