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 dollars ...

Karl de Leeuw, a Christian and Protestant church member from Pretoria, in the center of apartheid South Africa, traveled to Kashmir in 2017 and 2025 in pursuit of WORLD PEACE via the TRUTH. He found ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and ...

Insecure people want authorities to tell them what to feel, think, and do. But supreme teachers want their students to trust their own thinking! Often people try to read the Torah trying to find ...

The Talmudic investment strategy involves diversifying assets into three parts: gold, business, and cash, which has shown positive returns and lower downside risk. Modern application of Talmudic ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me. By Michael David Lukas In late 2019, I came upon an article about Daf Yomi — the practice of reading a page of the Talmud every day over ...

Good teachers know that telling stories is an effective way to illustrate and reinforce points they are trying to make. The Mishna and the Talmud, composed mainly of laws and religious teachings, ...

Rabbinical commentators on the Talmud noted in the medieval era that a handful of sections of the great corpus stood out linguistically from the rest. Over generations of scholars, the existence of ...

'The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic' discusses the six women in the Talmud who are cited by name, and matches them with six paradigms of the female. In our time of war and pain, grief and loss, Gila ...

(JNS) A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum by the family of ...