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

“One of the ... to explain what he calls the Talmud’s “role at the heart of Jewish culture. It was absorbed and received as the central canonical work around which life is organized.” ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

(Pirkei Avot 3:2) Yet Talmud ... he says this: The rule about preserving life only applies when the laws and social order aren’t persecuting and degrading the Jews. If the degradation becomes ...

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.

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 ...