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The vast majority of Talmudic study has been conducted by Orthodox communities, whose members are also more willing to spend the thousands of dollars necessary to purchase hard copies of Jewish ...
The nonprofit offers free access to Jewish texts, and debuts one of its most ambitious projects yet - an interactive version of a cryptic and oft-overlooked version of the Talmud ...
Wild theories about supposed secrets hidden within the Talmud are making the rounds on social media. Here's what's really in there.
A new English version of the Steinsaltz Talmud by the Koren publishing house, and a free version of the translation available on the website Sefaria, further expanded Steinsaltz’s reach.
Traditional Talmud study isn’t about passive reading—it’s about deciphering the text, following its twists and turns, and ultimately, struggling with it until meaning emerges.
JERUSALEM (RNS) A nonprofit organization devoted to Jewish learning announced it has uploaded 22 tractates of the English-language edition of the Babylonian Talmud and will post the remainder as ...
“A reliable English translation of the whole Babylonian Talmud has long been looked forward to by scholars. This expectatation is about to be realized by the Soncino edition, of which the Order ...
The Talmud is almost as sacred to Jews as Scripture, but by no means does every Jew know what is in it. English editions of the 20-volume compilation of law and learning run to several hundred ...
The new project includes all known textual variants of the Talmud and allows researchers, scholars and Talmud students to easily compare the different texts side by side.
The 1.0 version of the People’s Talmud was launched in Dubai three years ago on Hanukkah. The first alpha version was unveiled at the Jewish Federation’s General Assembly in Tel Aviv in 2018.