Rabbinic literature Books
Behrman House Inc.,U.S. Hillel Takes a Bath
Book Synopsis"This lovely, magnificently illustrated book keeps to the spirit of Hillel’s teaching by taking a higher concept and simplifying it so it can be easily understood." — Jewish Book CouncilHillel's students never knew what to expect from the rabbi. A mitzvah could be an act of kindness or the observance of a ritual. What did the rabbi mean? What mysterious mitzvah could it be?Trade Review"A Jewish sage confounds his students with his surprising teaching methods in this story based on a midrash. Brandishing a "large linen cloth," Hillel announces he will show how "to do a mitzvah." His students know some of the 613 mitzvot, Torah commandments that teach people how to act. They remember how Hillel ingeniously taught the Torah to a man who wanted to learn the whole thing while standing on one foot: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.…That is the whole Torah. Now go and study." Guessing at the rabbi's intentions, the students suggest possible mitzvot: giving the cloth as tzedakah (charity), using it as a Sabbath tablecloth, or shading his parents with it. To demonstrate his lesson, Hillel shows them workers cleaning the king's statue. The king's image should be respected, but his students must understand something more important: that they "are made in God's image." He says: "When we keep ourselves clean, we honor God. And that is why taking a bath is an important mitzvah." The digital illustrations have an animation aesthetic, and the people represented have diverse skin colorings and dark hair, realistic for its ancient Middle Eastern setting. The active-learning approach will engage young readers at home or in religious classes. An appealing and effective age-appropriate introduction to some of Hillel's teachings."— Kirkus Reviews"This lovely, magnificently illustrated book keeps to the spirit of Hillel’s teaching by taking a higher concept and simplifying it so it can be easily understood."— Jewish Book Council
£12.99
Jewish Lights Publishing The Other Talmud—The Yerushalmi: Unlocking the
Book SynopsisA fascinatingand stimulatinglook at "the other Talmud" and the possibilities for Jewish life reflected there."The difference between the Bavli and the Yerushalmi is something like the difference between making a movie for a regular theater versus making one for a 3-D theater and/or an IMAX theater. It''s still the story of Judaism and the Jewish people. But the colors are richer, the action is bigger, the effects are more powerful in the 3-D/IMAX world of the Yerushalmi. Your actors live on the soundstage, that is, in Israel, and that informs their performance. You could imagine the Yerushalmi is a pop-up book: you open it and Jewish living materializes."from the IntroductionThis engaging look at the Judaism that might have been breaks open the YerushalmiThe Talmud of the Land of Israeland what it means for Jewish life today. It examines what the Yerushalmi is, how it differs from the Bavlithe Babylonian Talmudand how and why the Bavli is used today. It reveals how the Yerushalmi''s vision of Jewish practice resembles today's liberal Judaism, and why the is growing in popularity.This broad but accessible overview of all the essential aspects of The Talmud of the Land of Israel will help you deepen your understanding of Judaism and the history of the Jewish people.
£13.49
Brandeis University Press Come and Hear - What I Saw in My
Book SynopsisSpurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi—a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for 2,711 days, or about seven and a half years—Adam Kirsch approached Tablet magazine to write a weekly column about his own Daf Yomi experience. An avowedly secular Jew, Kirsch did not have a religious source for his interest in the Talmud; rather, as a student of Jewish literature and history, he came to realize that he couldn’t fully explore these subjects without some knowledge of the Talmud. This book is perfect for readers who are in a similar position. Most people have little sense of what the Talmud actually is—how the text moves, its preoccupations and insights, and its moments of strangeness and profundity. As a critic and journalist Kirsch has experience in exploring difficult texts, discussing what he finds there, and why it matters. His exploration into the Talmud is best described as a kind of travel writing—a report on what he saw during his seven-and-a-half-year journey through the Talmud. For readers who want to travel that same path, there is no better guide.Trade Review"Kirsch gives a tantalizing taste of what reading and seriously grappling with the Talmud is like." * Publisher's Weekly, starred review *"If you’re considering delving into the Talmud, you might want try “Come and Hear” first. It’s an excellent introduction." -- Aaron Leibel * Washington Jewish Week *"Kirsch wanted to fill the “Talmud-sized gap” in his Jewish understanding, and his readily digestible essays on the forty Talmudic tractates of the Daf Yomi cycle in Come and Hear efficiently offer this service to his readers.” * TLS *"Adam Kirsch...does a masterful job of summarizing the entire Talmud section by section and is insightful as a both a reader and a storyteller. Kirsch’s work is another step in teaching the broader Jewish world that the Talmud is a book worth opening again and again." * Tradition *"Once again the brilliant and indefatigable Adam Kirsch, one of America's best literary critics, has done the world a great public service. Come and Hear invites us into the world of the Talmud, one of literary history's most daunting and least accessible texts. Kirsch doesn't merely explain or introduce readers to this world; he shows us why it's a world worth exploring, for anyone who cares about how human beings think. Welcome." -- Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews“It’s no small feat that Adam Kirsch manages to make a labyrinthine text accessible, an ancient conversation eminently alive. Come and Hear is a rare and invaluable doorway into the long-standing house many of us have felt hesitant to enter: the Talmud. Kirsch makes the rabbinic sages feel like recognizable relatives, and the parsing of legal minutiae feel like thrilling detective work. His writing is crisp and clear, even his chapter headings are inviting. Just as the author confides that ‘doing Daf Yomi was by far the most important Jewish experience of my adult life,’ reading Kirsch’s book may be one of yours." -- Abigail Pogrebin, author of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew“Come and Hear is a clear and incisive introduction for new swimmers in the vast sea of Talmud and for veteran students of its pages who appreciate fresh insights into ancient debates and the rabbinic mindset behind them. Adam Kirsch has placed his own captivating voice into an enduring, quirky, and arcane conversation and remarkable textual reclamation project that has brought ancient wisdom in contact with modern life.” -- Dr. Erica Brown, Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership, The George Washington University“Come and Hear entices readers to sample the fruits of Kirsch's 7 ½-year Talmud regime, which includes its quirkiest tidbits and the staples of rabbinic debate and wisdom. A joy to read--and a surefire enticement to savor the pleasures of Talmud for oneself." -- Rabbi Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia“This beautiful book aims to capture what the Talmud actually is. Come and Hear is helpful, clear, practical, and detailed---and always engaged in conveying the fundamental uniqueness of the Talmud, which Adam Kirsch movingly calls its own genre. This is a love song to the ‘freedom to learn without the obligation to agree,’ and a living example of the Talmud's central role in Jewish continuity—in Hebrew, Aramaic, and now, in a leading contemporary critic's hands, in English." -- Aviya Kushner, author of Wolf Lamb BombTable of ContentsIntroduction I. Tractate Berachot and Seder Moed: Prayers, Shabbat and Holidays 1. Berachot: On how to pray, whose prayers are granted, and the perils of snubbing a rabbi's wife. 2. Shabbat: On forbidden labors, set-aside items, and learning the Torah while standing on one leg. 3. Eruvin: On bounaries, interpreting the Torah, and why the Messiah will come on a weekday. 4. Pesachim: On searching for chametz, the Passover sacrifice, and how to calculate the size of hell. 5. Shekalim: On money-changers in the Temple, the appearance of impropriety, and what happened to the Ark of the Covenant. 6. Yoma: On sacred choreography, the meaning of atonement, and the many uses of manna. 7. Sukka: On squaring the circle, using an elephant as a wall, and why the sages juggled torches. 8. Beitza: On newly laid eggs, good table manners, and why the Jewish people need a fiery law. 9. Rosh Hashanah: On the date of Creation, hearing the shofar, and how to trick death. 10. Taanit: On praying for rain, the importance of solidarity, and the inauspicious dates. 11. Megilla: On divine inspiration, rewriting the Bible, and Haman's years as a barber. 12. Moed Katan: On holidays, making graves, and the right to be beautiful. 13. Hagiga: On divine judgment and the danger of praying into God's secrets. II. Seder Nashim: Marriage and Divorce 14. Yevamot: On levirate marriage, converting to Judaism, and a camel that didn't dance. 15. Ketubot: On marriage contracts, the value of virginity, and how to deal with a disgusting spouse. 16. Nedarim and Nazir: On how to take a vow — and why you shouldn't. 17. Sota: On magic potions, unfaithful wives, and a worm that chews through stone. 18. Gittin: On divorce, the destruction of the Temple, and the real meaning of tikkun olam. 19. Kiddushin: On betrothal, the duties of parents and children, and why women don't have to wear tefillin. III. Seder Nezikin: Civil and Criminal Law 20. Bava Kamma: On negligence, restitution, and the problem with being robbed by a Jewish bandit. 21. Bava Metzia: On ownership, exploitation, and when to ignore the voice of God. 22. Bava Batra: On real estate, inheritance, and surviving catastrophe. 23. Sanhedrin: On capital punishment, the World to Come, and using magic to make dinner. 24. Makkot: On flogging, perjury, and forbidden tattoos. 25. Shevuot: On taking oaths, the burden of proof, and when to throw a duck at a judge. 26. Avoda Zara: On idol worship, intermarriage, and the rabbi who used an emperor as a footstool. 27. Horayot: On mistaken judgments and why scholars outrank kings. IV: Seder Kodashim and Tractate Niddah: The Temple, Sacrifices, and Ritual Purity 28. Zevachim and Menachot: On animal sacrifices, meal offerings, and how the Jewish people is like an olive tree. 29. Hullin and Bekhorot: On kosher slaughter, separating meat and dairy, and when a firstborn isn't a firstborn. 30. Arakhin, Temura, and Karetot: On the value of a life, switching sacrifices, and a punishment worse than death. 31. Meila, Tamid, Middot, and Kinnim: On stealing from God, a day in the life of the Temple, and avian brainteasers. 32. Nidda: On menstruation, ejaculation, and why girls are wiser than boys. Conclusion Acknowledgments
£24.70
Brandeis University Press Bringing Down the Temple House – Engendering
Book SynopsisA feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate as culturally significant. While the use of feminist analysis as a methodological lens is not new to the study of Talmudic literature or to the study of individual tractates, this book demonstrates that such an intervention with the Babylonian Talmud reveals new perspectives on the rabbis’ relationship with the temple and its priesthood. More specifically, through the relationships most commonly associated with home, such as those of husband-wife, father-son, mother-son, and brother-brother, the rabbis destabilize the temple bayit (or temple house). Moving beyond the view that the temple was replaced by the rabbinic home, and that rabbinic rites reappropriate temple practices, a feminist approach highlights the inextricable link between kinship, gender, and the body, calling attention to the ways the rabbis deconstruct the priesthood so as to reconstruct themselves. Trade Review“Happy families may all be alike, but the priestly family is unhappy in its own ways, shows Marjorie Lehman in her fine-grained readings of Babylonian Talmud Tractate Yoma. Lehman’s story is one of patriarchy and hierarchy, but also of vulnerability and reflection, as the tractate turns towards the practices of self-affliction that, until today, characterize the day of atonement. Tractate Yoma reads, if not quite like a novel or poem, then like a series of meditations on the shifting meanings of home and the anxieties about continuity and control. You will leave Bringing Down the Temple House never thinking the same way again about ‘the house’ as a Jewish cultural topos.” -- Beth Berkowitz, Barnard College, author of Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud“Strikingly original. Lehman brings to bear a feminist lens to demonstrate how one group of men (the rabbis) critiques and wrestles with the legacy of another group of men (the priests). Feminist attention to the constitutive relationships of the household (husband-wife, father-son, mother-son) illuminates the anxieties and tensions that play out as the rabbis claim the mantel of religious leadership from their priestly rivals.” -- Elizabeth Shanks Alexander, author of Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism“Lehman persuasively demonstrates that the theme ‘house’ runs uniquely and distinctively through Bavli Tractate Yoma, read holistically as a self-contained literary unit. With an erudite combination of academic Talmud criticism and feminist and gender analysis, Lehman shows the many gendered paths Bavli Yoma takes to disconnect the rabbinic ‘house’ from a Temple ‘house’ for which she perceptively detects a lack of rabbinic nostalgia.” -- Alyssa Gray, Professor of Rabbinics, Hebrew Union College-JIR“Through insightful analyses, compelling argumentation, and beautiful prose, Lehman mines Tractate Yoma’s structure, content, and imagery to reveal the intricate connections that the rabbis drew between gender, the home, and the temple. A model of what can be learned when we read the Talmud as literature and bring feminist analysis to ancient texts, and an absolute pleasure to read.” -- Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Fordham UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Unsettling the Temple BayitChapter 2: Violence in the Temple: Father Priests and Their SonsChapter 3: Mothers and Sons: Broken HousesChapter 4: From Inside Out: Kimhit’s HouseChapter 5: Intergenerational Transmission and the Problem of MothersChapter 6: Sexuality Inside and Outside the Temple HouseChapter 7: Sustaining the Rabbinic HouseholdChapter 8: Vulnerable Bodies in Vulnerable HousesChapter 9: Purity and Impurity: From Priest to RabbiAfterwordAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyIndex
£72.20
Brandeis University Press Bringing Down the Temple House – Engendering
Book SynopsisA feminist project that privileges the Babylonian Talmudic tractate as culturally significant. While the use of feminist analysis as a methodological lens is not new to the study of Talmudic literature or to the study of individual tractates, this book demonstrates that such an intervention with the Babylonian Talmud reveals new perspectives on the rabbis’ relationship with the temple and its priesthood. More specifically, through the relationships most commonly associated with home, such as those of husband-wife, father-son, mother-son, and brother-brother, the rabbis destabilize the temple bayit (or temple house). Moving beyond the view that the temple was replaced by the rabbinic home, and that rabbinic rites reappropriate temple practices, a feminist approach highlights the inextricable link between kinship, gender, and the body, calling attention to the ways the rabbis deconstruct the priesthood so as to reconstruct themselves. Trade Review“Happy families may all be alike, but the priestly family is unhappy in its own ways, shows Marjorie Lehman in her fine-grained readings of Babylonian Talmud Tractate Yoma. Lehman’s story is one of patriarchy and hierarchy, but also of vulnerability and reflection, as the tractate turns towards the practices of self-affliction that, until today, characterize the day of atonement. Tractate Yoma reads, if not quite like a novel or poem, then like a series of meditations on the shifting meanings of home and the anxieties about continuity and control. You will leave Bringing Down the Temple House never thinking the same way again about ‘the house’ as a Jewish cultural topos.” -- Beth Berkowitz, Barnard College, author of Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud“Strikingly original. Lehman brings to bear a feminist lens to demonstrate how one group of men (the rabbis) critiques and wrestles with the legacy of another group of men (the priests). Feminist attention to the constitutive relationships of the household (husband-wife, father-son, mother-son) illuminates the anxieties and tensions that play out as the rabbis claim the mantel of religious leadership from their priestly rivals.” -- Elizabeth Shanks Alexander, author of Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism“Lehman persuasively demonstrates that the theme ‘house’ runs uniquely and distinctively through Bavli Tractate Yoma, read holistically as a self-contained literary unit. With an erudite combination of academic Talmud criticism and feminist and gender analysis, Lehman shows the many gendered paths Bavli Yoma takes to disconnect the rabbinic ‘house’ from a Temple ‘house’ for which she perceptively detects a lack of rabbinic nostalgia.” -- Alyssa Gray, Professor of Rabbinics, Hebrew Union College-JIR“Through insightful analyses, compelling argumentation, and beautiful prose, Lehman mines Tractate Yoma’s structure, content, and imagery to reveal the intricate connections that the rabbis drew between gender, the home, and the temple. A model of what can be learned when we read the Talmud as literature and bring feminist analysis to ancient texts, and an absolute pleasure to read.” -- Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Fordham UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Unsettling the Temple BayitChapter 2: Violence in the Temple: Father Priests and Their SonsChapter 3: Mothers and Sons: Broken HousesChapter 4: From Inside Out: Kimhit’s HouseChapter 5: Intergenerational Transmission and the Problem of MothersChapter 6: Sexuality Inside and Outside the Temple HouseChapter 7: Sustaining the Rabbinic HouseholdChapter 8: Vulnerable Bodies in Vulnerable HousesChapter 9: Purity and Impurity: From Priest to RabbiAfterwordAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyIndex
£30.40
Brown Judaic Studies Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud
£45.60
Rowman & Littlefield Bees, Wasps, and Weasels: Zoomorphic Slurs and
Book SynopsisThis study explores the zoomorphic content of Zibburta (bee/wasp) and Karkušta (weasel)—demeaning names given by R. Naḥman of b. Meg 14b to Deborah and Huldah, two distinguished prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Looking closely at relevant texts, Blaženka Scheuer explores ancient beliefs about bees, wasps, and weasels, recounting a variety of key literary and visual motifs that highlight the different attributes of these animals. Scheuer’s study demonstrates the multiple ways in which zoomorphic images were used as interpretative keys both in the formation of Deborah and Huldah stories in the Hebrew Bible and in their subsequent versions. In a constant process of interaction with their cultural contexts, such zoomorphism represents an attempt to define the rabbinic beliefs about the role of women in Jewish tradition but also about the nature of God. Scheuer argues that the symbolic association of bees and weasels with asexual conception and birth made the zoomorphic slurs about Deborah and Huldah effective also as an argument against the doctrine of virgin birth in early Christianity. Emphasizing the foundational process of constant negotiation of traditions and textual interpretations, Scheuer exposes the culturally rich and religiously competitive world in which the biblical texts were transmitted.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter One: Deborah, Huldah, and the Formation of Zoomorphic SlursPart One: DeborahChapter Two: Deborah: A Bee or a Wasp?Chapter Three: Deborah in the Jewish DiasporaChapter Four: Deborah and the Question of a Female DivinePart Two: HuldahChapter Five: Huldah: A Weasel-ProphetessChapter Six: Huldah and the Question of Interpretive AuthorityPart Three: Deborah, Huldah, and Virgin MaryChapter Seven: Deborah, Huldah, and the Virgin MaryChapter Eight: Concluding Remarks
£69.30
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Übersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi: I. Seder
Book SynopsisDer Traktat Demai ('Zweifelhaftes') des Talmud Yerushalmi behandelt landwirtschaftliche Erzeugnisse, von denen man nicht weiß, ob die nach Num 18,20-29 vorgeschriebenen Abgaben an die Leviten und Priester abgesondert worden sind oder nicht. Er bietet eine Fülle an Material über im Land Israel angebaute Früchte und ihre Verarbeitung. Die Beziehungen zu Leuten, die die Gesetze nicht streng beachten sowie Pacht-und Kaufvorschriften für Felder von Juden, Samaritanern und Nichtjuden nehmen einen breiten Raum ein. Besonders wichtig sind geographische Beschreibungen mit genauen Angaben, innerhalb welcher Gebiete welche Vorschriften zu beachten sind. Diese Texte sind eine wichtige Quelle für die Verbreitung der jüdischen Bevölkerung bis zum Beginn des 5. Jahrhunderts. Der Traktat hat keine Gemara im babylonischen Talmud und bietet deswegen viel eigenständiges Material.
£92.15
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Kabale: Das Geheimnis Des Hebraischen Humanismus
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Die Philosophie Des Mittelalters: Byzanz.
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www.bnpublishing.com Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
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www.bnpublishing.com The Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Horayoth - Rulings, Soncino
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Koren Publishers The Steinsaltz Talmud Bavli: Tractate Pesahim
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Koren Publishers The Steinsaltz Talmud Bavli: Tractate Pesahim
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Koren Publishers Steinsaltz Talmud Bavli- Hullin Part 1, Large,
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Koren Publishers The Koren Talmud Bavli: Tractate Keritot, Me'ila,
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Koren Publishers Koren Talmud Bavli Noe Edition: Volume 29:
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Koren Publishers Koren Talmud Bavli Noe Edition: Volume 32: Avoda
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Koren Publishers Koren Talmud Bavli, Noe Edition, Vol 35: Menahot
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Koren Publishers Koren Talmud Bavli, Noe Edition, Vol 37: Hullin
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Koren Publishers Koren Talmud Bavli, Noe Edition, Vol 42: Nidda,
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Koren Publishers Mishna Hamivoeret Shviit: Standard, Hebrew
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Koren Publishers The Annotated and Illustrated Masekhet Pesakhim
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Koren Publishers The Annotated and Illustrated Masekhet Yoma
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