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The Essential Talmud is a masterful introduction by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud. A book of profound scholarship and concise pedagogy, The Essential Talmud succinctly describes the Talmud’s history, structure, and methodology. It summarizes the Talmud’s main principles, demonstrates its contemporary relevance, and captures the spirit of this unique and paradoxical sacred text as a human expression of divine law.

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File Size: 572 KB
Print Length: 338 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0465082734
Publisher: Koren Publishers Jerusalem (June 14, 2010)
Publication Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
ASIN: B003S9VNJM
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Bruce Wolf

Great introduction to Talmud.

July 14, 2016

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Excellent overview of Talmud. This book gives a history of the Talmud, as well as underlying. concepts. It is illustrated by specific passages. Great introduction for people who want to know about the structure, history, and messages of the Talmud. It is not overwhelmng.

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TSKnoxville

Excellent intro primer to the Talmud

March 8, 2016

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Excellent intro primer to the Talmud! It would have been helpful to have more examples, especially about the discussions of how various sages and rabbis came to same conclusions through different logic or different conclusions via the same logic.

But an interesting introduction to the Talmud.

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April 13, 2018

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Disappointed! It's more a commentary on the parts of the Talmud.

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The author does an excellent job of translating into layperson's language the insights one ...

February 17, 2015

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This is as close as I have come to the real thing. The author does an excellent job of translating into layperson's language the insights one gains from scholarly study of the Talmud.

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November 2, 2015

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It was what I thought it would be do not think this will be the only book you will need to understand the Talmud

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February 4, 2017

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Very good

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June 29, 2010

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I love the way Rabbi Steinsaltz walks his reader through the pages of such rich history, such beautiful lore and meaningful tradition and makes it all living. I highly recommend the book for beginners who approach the topic of Rabbinic literature and related studies. Those who know Rabbinic literature and history already might be bored a bit. The book gets to be a bit philosophical but not too scholarly. It is fairly easy to understand and really should be read in one gulp. This way the information scattered in all the chapters would make sense. My only disappointment with the book, though the material is excellent, there are not sources listed, there are no detailed bibliographies. It is as if Rabbi Steinsaltz just wrote it all from memory one afternoon. May be it is just me but I crave sources and bibliographies on the information that interests me so much.

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October 29, 2015

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Talmud for dummies--very helpful.

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