may not realize that shunning work and pursuing Torah study full time is a perversion of the general consensus of the rabbis of the Talmud, who exalted labor: “Great is labor, for it honors the ...

The Talmud purports to be the written version of the oral Torah that Pharisaic and later Orthodox Judaism believed was ...

Sefaria, a website that aims to put the nearly infinite Jewish canon online for free, has published an acclaimed translation of the Talmud in English. NEW YORK (JTA) — For centuries, studying a ...

Tens of thousands of Jews will open their bright new textbooks and embark on a crash course titled Decoding the Talmud, ...