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Babylonian Talmud

'The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic,' by Gila Fine. (Courtesy)
June 11, 2024, 5:23 pm
A redemptive reading of Talmudic women reveals ‘radical truths’ hidden by the rabbis
Perfect for Shavuot learning, a new book by thinker Gila Fine reexamines the complex narratives of women in the Talmud, giving them new life with insightful second readings
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Illustrative photo of a Talmud page. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
June 3, 2024, 5:19 am
Rashi was right: Machine learning confirms unique status of some Talmudic tracts
New study shows that the ‘special tractates’ of the Babylonian Talmud have distinct linguistic features, as commented on by medieval sages
By Gavriel Fiske
Goldie's Bagels in Columbia, MO is giving away free bagels and coffee to those who cannot afford to pay. (JTA)
September 4, 2022, 2:17 pm
Missouri bagel shop goes viral for Talmudic effort to feed unhoused
A former campus Hillel educator, Goldie’s Bagels founder Amanda Rainey aims to imbue Jewish values into its daily operations
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
March 18, 2022, 4:41 pm
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of Israel’s leading religious authorities, dies at 94
Kanievsky was a hugely influential leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Haredi community, with hundreds of thousands of followers; politicians laud ‘one of the generation’s greats’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A 12-volume set of Babylonian Talmud with commentaries, printed in Amsterdam by Immanuel Benveniste, 1644-47 (Kestenbaum & Company)
January 7, 2022, 4:03 am
New online translation by Sefaria may be the Jerusalem Talmud’s ‘Cinderella moment’
The nonprofit offers free access to Jewish texts, and debuts one of its most ambitious projects yet – an interactive version of a cryptic and oft-overlooked version of the Talmud
By David Stromberg
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. (Steinsaltz Center/courtesy)
August 7, 2020, 1:48 pm
‘His works will last for generations’: Leaders mourn Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Tributes pour in for Israel Prize laureate and scholar credited with revolutionizing Talmud studies; funeral, with family only, livestreamed from Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) in his Jerusalem office (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 7, 2020, 11:12 am
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who made the Talmud accessible, dies at 83
Israel Prize laureate and scholar credited with revolutionary translation and commentary of seminal Jewish texts in ‘once-in-a-millennium’ achievement
By Marissa Newman
The women's siyum HaShas in the Jerusalem Convention Center on January 5, 2020 (Courtesy)
January 6, 2020, 2:04 pm
In Jerusalem, the world of Talmud study fetes its newest superstars — women
An event marks the culmination of a 7.5-year daily gemara cycle — and a crescendo in decades of efforts by teachers to wrest Jewish texts from men’s-only clubs
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative: A 12-volume set of Babylonian Talmud with commentaries, printed in Amsterdam by Immanuel Benveniste, 1644-47 (Kestenbaum & Company)
December 28, 2018, 6:23 am
New Talmud ‘biography’ seeks to bring the foundational text to life
Prof. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer has studied the Oral Law since he was 17; now he shares its story with an accessible, big picture view of its centrality to Judaism
By Rich Tenorio
Dr. Tzvika Tzuk, Israel Nature and Parks Authority's director of the department of archaeology, holds a tiny bronze bull. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
December 11, 2018, 7:21 pm
At Zippori pool where Judah Hanasi may have bathed, a rare tiny pagan bull found
Archaeologists believe they can connect a peculiar Talmudic story about the Sanhedrin head questioning the need for a fast day to a recently excavated site in a national park
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Ilana Kurshan and jacket cover of her book, 'If All the Seas Were Ink.' (Debbi Cooper/Courtesy Ilana Kurshan)
September 5, 2017, 3:27 pm
Divorced and battling illness, rabbi’s daughter finds her lifeline in the Talmud
Ilana Kurshan’s Talmudic commentary/memoir is a striking account of a contemporary life lived alongside an ancient text
By Mitch Ginsburg
Illustrative: This undated photo provided by Sotheby's in New York shows the first-ever printing of the Talmud in Venice in the 1520s. (Sotheby's via AP)
March 29, 2016, 9:16 pm
First Italian translation of Talmud to be published
Dozens of translators, linguists, philologists, historians and researchers have been working on the volume
By JTA
Volunteers attempt to recover Iraqi Jewish archival material from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, 2003. (Harold Rhode, Courtesy of the US National Archives)
January 6, 2016, 8:20 pm
Who should keep Iraqi Jewry’s archives, saved from Saddam, now on tour in US?
The future of a unique collection, salvaged in a ‘Monuments Men-style’ rescue from a secret police HQ in Baghdad, 2003, is up for grabs
By Rich Tenorio
A Christian Arab soldier receiving a certificate of appreciation from Greek Orthodox priest Gabriel Naddaf during a 2013 event in Nazareth (photo credit: courtesy IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
September 18, 2014, 6:51 pm
Israeli Christians may define themselves as Aramean
New legal processes will allow members of religious minority to carve out identity distinct from Muslim Arabs
By Lazar Berman
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) in his Jerusalem office (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 9, 2012, 6:24 am
Never mind the Bible, it’s the sanity of the Talmud you need to understand the world and yourself
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, one of the Jewish world’s leading scholars, says Israel would be a less fanatical place if schools were to focus on teaching the Gemara
By Raphael Ahren
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