There is an interview (Hebrew) on the website Kipa with MK Ruth Calderon. Here is one snippet. …Talmud is a project unlike any other. It is a sort of frozen product that you reheat anew. It is the frozen food of intellectuals, of people who love wisdom more than the bottom line. Talmud is not [...]
Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer has linked to a new commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud that looks very promising. The first tractate, Rosh ha-Shannah, can be found online here.
Below is a video of MK Ruth Calderon’s recent talk at JTS. (HT to Yossi Hoffman on Twitter)
Haym Soloveitchik reviewed Talia Fishman’s book Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures in the Jewish Review of Books. Fishman’s response and Soloveitchik’s rejoinder can be found here. See a more detailed rejoinder by Soloveitchik here. It ain’t pretty.
In her inaugural speech as an MK, Ruth Calderon spoke about the Talmud, how it became central to her life, and she then taught from a volume that belonged to Yair Lapid’s grandfather. She spoke about the following story from Ketubbot 62b. כי הא דרב רחומי הוה שכיח קמיה דרבא במחוזא, הוה רגיל דהוה אתי [...]
Chaim Tchernowitz (1871-1949), a.k.a. Rav Tzair, was a scholar of Talmud who was born in Russia and later settled in New York. He is well known for his multi-volume works Toldot ha-Halakhah and Toldot ha-Poskim. Besides his many publication Rav Tzair was an active participant in Jewish cultural life. At one point he even called [...]
Haaretz has an interview with Ruth Calderon (see this previous post about her): Day after day, Dr. Ruth Calderon goes to her computer, usually in the early morning hours, and posts on her Facebook page passages from the Mishna and her own associations with the ancient compilation of the Jewish oral tradition that forms the [...]
Thanks to a post at the Sefaria forum, I stumbled upon a number of vocalized and formatted Talmudic chapters by Rabbi Dan Be’eri. The texts can be found here and below is a sample.
Another new Daf Yomi initiative is Daily Daf Differently. We hope you will join us as we go through the process of learning the daily Talmud page led by a group of master Rabbis and teachers who will take a look at the “Daf Yomi” through a liberal lens. This initiative is hosted by Jcast [...]
Ynet has an article (H) about a group of Israeli parents who sent a letter to the Minister of Education demanding that girls start learning Gemara in the religious school system in the same grade as boys. The letter can be read here. According to the article, boys start learning Gemara in 5th grade, while [...]
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