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 ...
(JTA) — When Lazarus Goldschmidt completed his translation of the Talmud into German, the world he had hoped to serve when he started 40 years earlier was in the process of being destroyed.
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 ...