Learn Talmud: How to Use The Talmud

by Judith Z. Abrams, Adin Steinsaltz

Overview

Judith Abrams, author of the highly acclaimed The Talmud for Beginners, Volumes I & II, creates yet another way of making Talmud study easy and accessible for the novice. Rabbi Abrams has chosen to work with the Steinsaltz Edition of the Talmud, edited and with commentary by Adin Steinsaltz, one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume is a must for both student and teacher.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568214634
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/01/1995
Edition description:	Special Edition
Pages:	153
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Judith Z. Abrams is a woman with a mission: she wants to bring the beauty of Talmud to as many people, and with as much depth, as possible. To that end, she has published four books on the Talmud (The Talmud for Beginners, volumes I and II, The Women of the Talmud, and with her husband, Dr. Steven A. Abrams, Jewish Parenting: Rabbinic Insights), earned her Ph.D. in rabbinic literature from the Baltimore Hebrew University, and teaches across the country. She is the founder and director of Maqom: A Place for the Spiritually Searching, a school for adult Talmud study where anyone can learn, regardless of their background. She lives in Houston with her husband, Steven, and their three children, Michael, Ruth, and Hannah.

Editorial Reviews

As part of Judith Abrams' mission to inspire students to study the Talmud she has produced a companion volume to Adin Steinsaltz's edition of the Talmud. Her goal is to insure that those who do engage the Talmud in study build an emotional and spiritual as well as intellectual bond with the Talmudic text. So dedicated is Abrams to her goal that she prefaces her Talmudic analysis with advice to eliminate potential student frustration. Additionally, this should be in the libraries of Talmud teachers as it contains useful sample course offerings accompanied by suggested levels of appropriateness.

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