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Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud: An Introduction

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Rabbi Stone gives a short introduction to Levinas' work that becomes increasingly popular even in North America. Levinas is not easy to read and to understand yet is ethical philosophy is fascinating and can easily be compared to Martin Buber. But Levinas was also a Talmud scholar and his way of reading and expounding Talmud is interesting especially for contemporary Jews. Ira Stone explains the way in which Levinas uses Talmudic sources and gives examples from selected sugyot where he applies that technique.