The story of the Bnei Brak Seder parallels a nearly identical story told in the tenth chapter of the Tosefta Pesachim about R ...

Some people think the Talmud tries to teach us to think like the Sages. Trying that would be so presumptuous. We can never think on their level. And it’s totally unwise trying to learn their texts by ...

Even the Jewish laws prohibiting lashon hara in strong terms, have exceptions. The sages of the Talmud knew that sometimes we need to know what’s going on, regardless of how we find out.

The truth that one knows from discipline is a tough concept. In every discipline there are a set of laws, you might say, that ...

Sarah Kolker is Jewish and always has been, but her view of the world is informed by other traditions as well. Growing up, ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinzaltz, the acclaimed scholar whose landmark translation of the Talmud enabled a vast readership to access one of Judaism’s most canonical texts, has died.

It wasn’t long before the special commission concluded that Justinian’s Talmud contained inflammatory content against Christianity. The Pope, in response, issued a decree to burn all copies of ...

Despite the mitzvah’s relatively modest baseline, many people exchange dozens of food gifts with family, friends and ...