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Cover Page Page: 1 Title Page Page: 3 Copyright Page Page: 4 Preface to Essential Talmud Page: 5 Part one: History Page: 6 1: What is the Talmud? Page: 7 2: Life in the Talmudic Period Page: 10 The Political Background Eretz Israel Page: 10 Babylonia Page: 10 Internal Administration Eretz Israel Page: 11 Babylonia Page: 12 Culture and Language Eretz Israel Page: 12 Babylonia Page: 13 The Economy Page: 13 Education and Study Page: 14 The Synagogue Page: 14 The Bet Midrash (Torah Academy) Page: 15 The Rabbinical Courts Page: 16 The Scholars and Their Disciples Page: 17 3: The Oral Law—The First Generations Page: 19 4: The Oral Law—The Era of the Zugot (Pairs) Page: 22 5: The Tannaim Page: 24 6: The Compilation of the Mishnah Page: 27 7: The Amoraim in Babylonia Page: 30 8: The Amoraim in Palestine Page: 33 9: The Redaction of the Babylonian Talmud Page: 36 10: Talmudic Exegesis Page: 39 11: The Printing of the Talmud Page: 43 12: The Persecution and Banning of the Talmud Page: 46 Part two: Structure And Content Page: 47 13: The Structure of the Talmud Page: 48 14: The Layout of a Talmud Page Page: 50 Page Numbers (1) Page: 50 The Page Heading (2) Page: 50 The Talmud Text [the Mishnah and the Gemara] (3) Page: 50 Punctuation (5) Page: 51 Parentheses and Corrections of the Text (6) Page: 51 Rashi’s Commentary (7) Page: 51 Tosafot (8) Page: 51 Vernacular Words Page: 52 References in Rashi and the Tosafot (9) Page: 52 The Commentary of Rabbenu Hananel (10) Page: 52 Ein Mishpat Ner Mitzvah (11) Page: 52 Torah Or (12) Page: 52 Masoret HaShas (13) Page: 53 Haggahot HaBah. (14) Page: 53 Haggahot HaGra (15) Page: 53 Gilyon HaShas (16) Page: 53 Haggahot Rav B. Ronsburg (17) Page: 54 Summary of Special Signs Page: 54 Commentaries and Other Additions Page: 54 Additional Commentaries That Do Not Appear on the Page Page: 54 Appended Collections of Halakhic Decisions Page: 55 15: The Subject Matter of the Talmud Page: 57 16: Prayers and Benedictions Page: 59 17: The Sabbath Page: 62 18: The Festivals Page: 65 19: Marriage and Divorce Page: 70 20: The Status of Women Page: 73 21: Civil Law Page: 76 22: Criminal Law Page: 82 23: Sacrifices Page: 86 24: Dietary Laws Page: 89 25: Ritual Purity and Impurity Page: 93 26: Ethics and Halakhah Page: 95 27: Derekh Eretz(Deportment) Page: 97 28: The World of Mysticism Page: 99 Part Three: Method Page: 101 29: Midrash(Halakhic Exegesis) Page: 102 30: The Talmudic Way of Thinking Page: 104 31: Strange and Bizarre Problems Page: 107 32: Methods of Study Page: 108 33: The Talmud and the Halakhah Page: 111 34: Aggadah in the Talmud Page: 112 35: What is a Scholar? Page: 115 36: The Talmud’s Importance for the People Page: 117 37: The Talmud Has Never Been Completed Page: 118 Appendix Page: 119 Index Page: 120

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A masterful introduction to the to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud In The Essential Talmud, the renowned Israeli scholar and teacher Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz succinctly describes the history, structure, and methodology of the sacred text by which the Jewish people have lived and survived through the ages. Rabbi Steinsaltz summarizes the Talmud's main principles, demonstrates its contemporary relevance, and captures the spirit of this unique and paradoxical text as a human expression of divine law. This expanded edition features a historical overview of life in the times of the Talmud and an in-depth look at the content and appearance of the original Talmudic page. As Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards of the B'Nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League puts it, "this book is indispensable to those, Jews and Christians alike, who would like to gain an insight into what it is that moves the contemporary Jew."
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A masterful introduction to the to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud In The Essential Talmud, the renowned Israeli scholar and teacher Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz succinctly describes the history, structure, and methodology of the sacred text by which the Jewish people have lived and survived through the ages. Rabbi Steinsaltz summarizes the Talmud's main principles, demonstrates its contemporary relevance, and captures the spirit of this unique and paradoxical text as a human expression of divine law. This expanded edition features a historical overview of life in the times of the Talmud and an in-depth look at the content and appearance of the original Talmudic page. As Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards of the B'Nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League puts it, "this book is indispensable to those, Jews and Christians alike, who would like to gain an insight into what it is that moves the contemporary Jew."

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