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  • The Essential Talmud: An Introduction

  • Written by: Adin Steinsaltz
  • Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks
  • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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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.
©2010 Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (P)2018 Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Judaism Religious Studies Bibles & Bible Study Essential Judaism
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Starts off pretty slow

The second half of this book is what I thought the book would be (a breakdown of key Talmudic concepts across the various categories of thought touched on by the volumes). I felt, though, that the amount of focus on the historical background of the development of the Talmud was much more than warranted. The first half is a history book, and the second is an essential breakdown of the Talmud.

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This audio is missing parts, and skips over parts.

This book is incomplete, it is missing parts. You can hear where sentences are removed.

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