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Legends of the Talmud

Author : Leah Vincent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692282809
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Talmud written by Leah Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends of the Talmud will introduce readers aged 6+ to one of the oldest and most influential texts of Judaism: the Talmud. Although often viewed as a collection of religious laws, the Talmud is also a cultural legacy filled with foundational Jewish ideas and magical tales. The five stories curated in Legends of the Talmud are presented without doctrinal overlay. They are recounted exactly as they are in the original text: cultural treasures that depict earthy and frank experiences of love, suffering, hope and persistence that all humans grapple with as we move through life. Written by Leah Vincent and Samuel Katz and illustrated by Aya Rosen, this revolutionary book will introduce children of all backgrounds to the Talmud and allow Jewish legends to proudly take their place in the global library of ancient magical stories.

Stories of the Babylonian Talmud

Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897467
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Stories of the Babylonian Talmud written by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey L. Rubenstein continues his grand exploration of the ancient rabbinic tradition of the Talmudic sages, offering deep and complex analysis of eight stories from the Babylonian Talmud to reconstruct the cultural and religious world of the Babylonian rabbinic academy. Rubenstein combines a close textual and literary examination of each story with a careful comparison to earlier versions from other rabbinic compilations. This unique approach provides insight not only into the meaning and content of the current forms of the stories but also into how redactors reworked those earlier versions to address contemporary moral and religious issues. Rubenstein's analysis uncovers the literary methods used to compose the Talmud and sheds light on the cultural and theological perspectives of the Stammaim—the anonymous editor-redactors of the Babylonian Talmud. Rubenstein also uses these stories as a window into understanding more broadly the culture of the late Babylonian rabbinic academy, a hierarchically organized and competitive institution where sages studied the Torah. Several of the stories Rubenstein studies here describe the dynamics of life in the academy: master-disciple relationships, collegiality and rivalry, and the struggle for leadership positions. Others elucidate the worldview of the Stammaim, including their perspectives on astrology, theodicy, and revelation. The third installment of Rubenstein’s trilogy of works on the subject, Stories of the Babylonian Talmud is essential reading for all students of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism.

En Jacob

Author : Rabbi Jacob Ibn Chabib
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780530193588
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book En Jacob written by Rabbi Jacob Ibn Chabib and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Legends of the Talmud

Author : Leah Vincent
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544134123
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Talmud written by Leah Vincent and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Talmud is a gigantic collection of law and lore compiled well over a thousand years ago by Jewish scholars in Jerusalem and Babylon. The Talmud has been studied in every generation since, and today it is beloved by hundreds of thousands of people of all backgrounds, around the world. The stories of the Talmud depict earthy and frank experiences of love, suffering, hope and persistence that all humans grapple with as we move through life. These retellings do not deviate from the ancient Aramaic sources, although at times we have emphasized a silenced perspective in the story. In true Talmudic tradition, the stories in this collection don't always provide easy answers, but they move us to ask important questions.

A Bride for One Night

Author : Ruth Calderon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827612095
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book A Bride for One Night written by Ruth Calderon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."

The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales

Author : Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782853541
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales written by Shoshana Boyd Gelfand and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retold by Rabbi Gelfand, each of these eight delightful tales from Jewish tradition is accompanied by Hall's vivid artwork and delivers a simple yet powerful message. Full color. 8 x 11.

The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah

Author : Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0805241132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah written by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1992-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel. The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of this masterful compendium, selected hundreds of texts from the Talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the Jewish people -- the texts of Rabbinic Judaism that remain at the heart of Jewish literacy today. Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah -- the non-legal portions of the Talmud and Midrash -- for their anthology. Loosely translated as "legends", Aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the Talmudic era sages and their contemporary history, parables, proverbs, and folklore. A captivating melange of wisdom and piety, fantasy and satire, Aggadah is the expressive medium of the Jewish creative genius. The arrangement of this compendium reflects the theological concerns of the Rabbinic sages: the role of Israel and the nations; God, good and evil; human relations; the world of nature; and the art of healing. Here, the reader who wants to explore traditional Jewish views on a particular subject is treated to a selection of relevant texts at his fingertips but will soon become immersed in a way of thinking, exploring, and questioning that is the hallmark of Jewish inquiry. "Whatever the imagination can invent is found in the Aggadah," wrote the historian Leopold Zunz, "its purpose always being to teach man the ways of God." The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah, now available in william Braude's superbly annotated translation, enables modern Jews to experience firsthand the richness and excitement of their cultural inheritance.

The Legends of the Jews

Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Legends of the Jews written by Louis Ginzberg and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sages and Dreamers

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sages and Dreamers written by Elie Wiesel and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections by the Nobel-winning philosopher and novelist on the prophets, scribes, and rebbes who comprise the histories and myths of Jewish folklore. Most of these essays were originally given as lectures at the 92nd Street Y in New York, and even in written form they preserve the tone and tempo of extemporary speech. The style is anecdotal rather than scholarly, and Wiesel does not hesitate to bring his opinions to bear.

Talmudic Stories

Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801861468
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Talmudic Stories written by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book features an appendix including the original Hebrew/Aramaic texts for the reader's reference.

Legends of the Talmud: Legends of Old Testament characters, from the Talmud and other sources

Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Talmud: Legends of Old Testament characters, from the Talmud and other sources written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-03-23 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Legends of Old Testament Characters, from the Talmud and Other Sources" is a book by Sabine Baring-Gould, an English scholar, antiquarian, and prolific author of the 19th century. In this work, Baring-Gould explores the rich tapestry of legends and folklore surrounding characters from the Old Testament, drawing from a variety of sources including the Talmud, Midrash, apocryphal texts, and medieval Jewish commentaries. The book provides retellings and interpretations of stories about figures such as Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Moses, David, Solomon, and others. Baring-Gould's goal is to illuminate the depth and breadth of Jewish tradition surrounding these biblical characters, highlighting the cultural, religious, and moral significance of their tales. Baring-Gould's work reflects his deep interest in comparative religion, folklore, and mythology. He presents these legends not only as historical narratives but also as reflections of universal human themes and archetypes. Through his retellings and commentary, readers gain insights into the ways in which ancient Jewish traditions have shaped perceptions of the Old Testament figures and their relevance to subsequent generations. "Legends of Old Testament Characters, from the Talmud and Other Sources" serves as both an introduction to Jewish folklore and a testament to the enduring power of biblical stories to inspire imagination and moral reflection across cultures and centuries.

The Land of Truth

Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827614357
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Land of Truth written by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the rich narrative world of Talmud tales fully accessible to modern readers, renowned Talmud scholar Jeffrey L. Rubenstein turns his spotlight on both famous and little-known stories, analyzing the tales in their original contexts, exploring their cultural meanings and literary artistry, and illuminating their relevance. Delving into both rabbinic life (the academy, master-disciple relationships) and Jewish life under Roman and Persian rule (persecution, taxation, marketplaces), Rubenstein explains how storytellers used irony, wordplay, figurative language, and other art forms to communicate their intended messages. Each close reading demonstrates the story's continuing relevance through the generations into modernity. For example, the story "Showdown in Court," a confrontation between King Yannai and the Rabbinic judges, provides insights into controversial struggles in U.S. history to balance governmental power; the story of Honi's seventy-year sleep becomes a window into the indignities of aging. Through the prism of Talmud tales, Rubenstein also offers timeless insights into suffering, beauty, disgust, heroism, humor, love, sex, truth, and falsehood. By connecting twenty-first-century readers to past generations, The Land of Truth helps to bridge the divide between modern Jews and the traditional narrative worlds of their ancestors.

Becoming the People of the Talmud

Author : Talya Fishman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204980
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Becoming the People of the Talmud written by Talya Fishman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Becoming the People of the Talmud, Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The inscription of Talmud—which Sefardi Jews understand to have occurred quite early, and Ashkenazi Jews only later—precipitated these developments. The encounter with Oral Torah as a written corpus was transformative for both subcultures, and it shaped the roles that Talmud came to play in Jewish life. What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and nonlegal material, come to be construed as a reference work and prescriptive guide to Jewish life? Connecting insights from geonica, medieval Jewish and Christian history, and orality-textuality studies, Becoming the People of the Talmud reconstructs the process of cultural transformation that occurred once medieval Jews encountered the Babylonian Talmud as a written text. According to Fishman, the ascription of greater authority to written text was accompanied by changes in reading habits, compositional predilections, classroom practices, approaches to adjudication, assessments of the past, and social hierarchies. She contends that certain medieval Jews were aware of these changes: some noted that books had replaced teachers; others protested the elevation of Talmud-centered erudition and casuistic virtuosity into standards of religious excellence, at the expense of spiritual refinement. The book concludes with a consideration of Rhineland Pietism's emergence in this context and suggests that two contemporaneous phenomena—the prominence of custom in medieval Ashkenazi culture and the novel Christian attack on Talmud—were indirectly linked to the new eminence of this written text in Jewish life.

Filled with Fire and Light

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805243534
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Filled with Fire and Light written by Elie Wiesel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis from the internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate, and one of the world’s most honored and beloved teachers. “This posthumous collection encourages a path toward purpose and transcendence.” —The New York Times Book Review From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history. Here is the prophet Elisha, wonder-worker and adviser to kings, whose compassion for those in need is matched only by his fiery temper. Here is the renowned scholar Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, whose ingenuity in escaping from a besieged Jerusalem on the eve of its destruction by Roman legions in 70 CE laid the foundation for the rabbinic teachings and commentaries that revolutionized the practice and study of Judaism and have sustained the Jewish people for two thousand years of ongoing exile. And here is Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad Hasidism, languishing in a Czarist prison in 1798, the victim of a false accusation, engaging in theological discussions with his jailers that would form the basis for Chabad’s legendary method of engagement with the world at large. In recounting the life stories of these and other spiritual seekers, in delving into the struggles of human beings trying to create meaningful lives touched with sparks of the divine, Wiesel challenges and inspires us all to fill our own lives with commitment and sanctity.

Ma'aseh Book

Author : Moses Gaster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ma'aseh Book written by Moses Gaster and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud, Or, Biblical Legends of the Mussulmans

Author : Gustav Weil
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342836406
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book The Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud, Or, Biblical Legends of the Mussulmans written by Gustav Weil and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah

Author : Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805241132
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah written by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1992-11-10 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel. The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of this masterful compendium, selected hundreds of texts from the Talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the Jewish people -- the texts of Rabbinic Judaism that remain at the heart of Jewish literacy today. Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah -- the non-legal portions of the Talmud and Midrash -- for their anthology. Loosely translated as "legends", Aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the Talmudic era sages and their contemporary history, parables, proverbs, and folklore. A captivating melange of wisdom and piety, fantasy and satire, Aggadah is the expressive medium of the Jewish creative genius. The arrangement of this compendium reflects the theological concerns of the Rabbinic sages: the role of Israel and the nations; God, good and evil; human relations; the world of nature; and the art of healing. Here, the reader who wants to explore traditional Jewish views on a particular subject is treated to a selection of relevant texts at his fingertips but will soon become immersed in a way of thinking, exploring, and questioning that is the hallmark of Jewish inquiry. "Whatever the imagination can invent is found in the Aggadah," wrote the historian Leopold Zunz, "its purpose always being to teach man the ways of God." The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah, now available in william Braude's superbly annotated translation, enables modern Jews to experience firsthand the richness and excitement of their cultural inheritance.