Talmud

From Prohibition to Precedent.

A companion volume to Pirkei Avot.

The grandson of Rashi and leader of medieval French Jewry.

The beloved Torah commentator also wrote a much-used commentary on the Talmud.

How the sages' debates across many generations became the monumental works known as the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds

The first day of the year becomes the day of judgment.

The Talmud treats the law as a given; its agenda is to see how the different understandings of that law relate to each other.

The sequence of the six orders follows the precedent of Scripture

On the various motivations and interests which brought Jews into a cross-generational conversation called Talmud.