talmud

The Tosafists continued the conversation with their glosses on the text of the Talmud.

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

Is anything written by a Jew a Jewish text, and who decides?

Commentaries on the three paragraphs of the Shema read Jewish concepts both out of and into the text.

On attending to mourners, anticipating dying, accepting death, and appropriate burial rites.

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

In working out the ideas behind the statements of the rabbis, the Talmud serves not as a law code but as a work of Jewish legal theory.

Together with the Mishnah, these texts make up what is known as Rabbinic Judaism.

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