Talmud Daily

Day 15: Ari Bergmann: How the Talmud Went from Conversation to Canon

Day 15 | Foundations How did generations of oral debate become Judaism’s foundational text? Ari Bergmann tells the story of how the Talmud became the Talmud. Put Your N

Day 14: The Rambam, Categorizer-in-Chief

Day 14 | Foundations The Rambam tried to distill the Talmud into one organized system. But instead of ending the conversation, he created an entirely new chapter of Tora

Day 13: How to Choose Your Talmud

Day 13 | Foundations Choosing the right edition can make the Talmud far more accessible. But the real breakthrough comes when its unfamiliar words stop looking like obst

Day 12: The Body and Soul of the Talmud

Today's learning is sponsored by The Canter Family in memory of M. Kenneth Canter - Moshe Koppel Ben Yehoshua v’ Sarah Dinah. Day 12 | Foundations What are we actually

Day 11: Choose Time

Day 11 | Foundations The structure of the Talmud teaches us not only to organize Torah, but to sanctify time. Put Your Name on a Day of Learning: Sponsor a day, sponsor

Day 10: Michelle Margolis: How the Talmud Went from Parchment to Pixels

Day 10 | Foundations In this episode of Talmud Daily: Voices, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin speaks with Michelle Margolis, the Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies a

Day 9: The Two Sides of the Talmud

Day 9 | Foundations One explains the Talmud line by line. The other connects its most distant conversations. Together, Rashi and Tosfot taught generations how to learn G

Day 8: A Symposium of Generations

Day 8 | Foundations From the Mishnah to Rashi to Rabbi Akiva Eiger, every page of Talmud brings generations of Jewish learning into a single conversation. Today's learn

Day 7: The Doodles of the Gemara

Day 7 | Foundations Some parts of life are written for us. Others are ours to interpret.  Today's learning is sponsored by Yael Laifer in memory of Raizel Devora bat Me

Day 6: The Torah We Read and the Torah We Live

Day 6 | Foundations The Torah has always been more than a written text. Jewish tradition lives in the relationship between the words we read and the Oral Torah that teac

Day 5: Liel Leibovitz: Why the Talmud Is So Hard to Love—and Worth Loving

Day 5 | Foundations  Liel Leibovitz reflects on falling in love with the Talmud precisely because it is so difficult—and on how its questions, frustrations, and intricat

Day 4: The Talmud on Trial—Why a Book Became a Target

Day 4 | Foundations For centuries, enemies of the Jewish people have targeted the Talmud because it represents far more than a book—it is the foundation of a distinctly

Day 3: Make Torah Sweet

Day 3 | Foundations Every morning, we pray that Torah should be sweet. But sweetness alone is not enough. This week’s learning is sponsored by Richard and Sheryl Weisbe

Day 2: The Broken Tablets

Day 2 | Foundations When Moshe shattered the first tablets, he set the stage for a new kind of Torah. One built through interpretation, argument, and our participation.

Day 1: Before the Talmud, There Was a People

Day 1 | Foundations The Talmud begins long before its first page, with an eternal conversation passed from generation to generation. This week’s learning is sponsored b

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