Learn Talmud How to Use The Talmud

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.

1 Introduction

Having a Hard Time Getting Started?

3

(1)

Talmud Study and Relationships

4

(1)

``I Am Lovable, I Am Capable''

4

(1)

The Trap of the Intellect

5

(1)

Feeling All Right about Feeling Uncomfortable

6

(1)

Feeling All Right about Laughing

7

(1)

Reading Right to Left and Around

8

(2)

The Reference Guide

10

(2)

A New Definition of Progress

12

(2)

Studying in Partnership

14

(1)

Setting Up an Environment for Study

15

(1)

Talmud Study as a Personal Journey

16

(2)

Some Basic Terms

18

(3)

The Real Story on Ritual Purity and Impurity

21

(1)

Tithes and Laws of Jewish Agriculture

22

(2)

Priests and Levites in Ancient Israel

24

(1)

How to Use This Book

25

(1)

How the Numbers and Difficulty Factors Work

26

(5)

2 Course Outlines

Talmud on a Budget: Six Courses

31

(1)

Stories of the Sages

32

(2)

Midrash and Torah Interpretation

34

(2)

The World of the Sages: The History/Anthropology of That Era

36

(3)

How to Be a Decent Person: Menschlichkeit 101

39

(2)

A Course in Business Ethics

41

(2)

A Course on Women

43

(3)

By Volume

46

(1)

By Difficulty Factor

46

(3)

3 The Passages

Clearing Ancient Credit Reports

49

(2)

Losing and Finding

51

(2)

A Rabbi's Honesty

53

(2)

What Is Stealing?

55

(2)

Torah Scrolls: A Special Case

57

(4)

Above the Law

61

(2)

The Art of the Drash

63

(2)

Your Parents vs. God

65

(2)

Teacher as Parent

67

(4)

Business Advice

71

(2)

What Is Owning? Acquiring? Money?

73

(3)

The Commerce of Perceptions and Feelings

76

(9)

Everything Is Connected: A Mystical Midrash

85

(2)

No Insider Trading and Other Rules of Fairness in Finances

87

(2)

Suffering and Sages

89

(11)

Spiritualizing the Concrete: What Is a House?

100

(2)

Concretizing the Spiritual: What Is a Blessing?

102

(3)

Who Is Needy?

105

(6)

The Fragrance of the World to Come

111

(1)

Weddings and Funerals

112

(7)

Truth or Tact?

119

(3)

``Who Is a Jew?'' and ``Consequences of Inappropriate Sexual Intercourse''

122

(4)

A Judaism that Responds to the Times: The Dictates of Usha

126

(3)

A Wife's Obligations to Her Husband

129

(1)

How Often to Have Sex and Love Stories of the Sages

130

(5)

4 Material from Volumes Still to Come

How to Give Charity

135

(1)

How to Deal with Persons with a Dread Disease

136

(1)

Dying with Dignity

137

(3)

On the Dangers of Taking Bribes

140

(1)

On the Merits of the Land of Israel and the World to Come

141

(2)

For Further Reading

143

(4)

An Invitation

147

(2)

Index

149

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