Whoever destroys a single life, it is as if they have destroyed the entire world. Whoever saves a single life, it is as if ...

“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire,” runs the famous line in the Talmud – which found its way to millions ... who travelled to Czechoslovakia in 1938 from where he helped spirit more than ...

Rather than analyzing the halachic material in the Gemara, as one might naturally ... his primarily approach to the Talmud and its sages is quite traditional. He does not approach the Gemara ...

JERUSALEMJERUSALEM — After 45 years of 16-hour work days, an Israeli scholar has finally completed his life’s work – a translation of the entire Talmud, one of ... This week he is publishing ...

Inside these boxes, he said, was parchment that contained verses from one of ... of Talmud” as the Jews do. “Our Talmud book,” he said, “is kind of a story about our life.” ...

In the Talmud, the faithful often encounter life-threatening drought ... only for Yom Kippur. One year, she waits and waits, sure that her husband will come, but he does not.

he has not truly honored his father. On the other hand, assisting one’s father in regular work is indeed a form of respect. Rashi then cites a passage from the Palestinian Talmud about a man who ...

I wanted to study the Talmud because it is foundational to literate Jewish life ... caught one another’s mistakes or mishaps, such as when Rav Sheshet said of a colleague, “He must have ...

The Talmud, the book of Jewish law, is one of the most challenging ... Einstein was asked what he would do differently if he could live his life again, he replied without hesitation: "I would ...

It’s easy to see why Jews would celebrate this tribute from one of humanity ... Tchernowitz spent his life pursuing a synthesis between the two. As a youth, he studied the Talmud and its ...