For some, the notion of delving into the Talmud in English for free with the click of a mouse was something they could only dream of. Now that dream is becoming a reality. Sefaria, a nonprofit ...

The Jewish educational website will offer a free daily email beginning on Jan. 5 to coincide with the restarting of the cycle of Daf Yomi, a century-old Jewish practice of studying a page of Talmud ...

It is just after 5 a.m. in Perth, Western Australia, when Debbie Posner logs on to the All Daf App to begin her day by studying Talmud. Despite the distance and remoteness of her location – some ...

Friends at a Long Island high school invite teens like them — especially girls — to engage in the page-a-day study of Judaism’s vast body of law and lore. This article was produced as part of JTA’s ...

Reading Talmud requires sophisticated textual interpretive abilities and has its own particular characteristics. But how do students learn to read Talmud? How can we assess that process? What can we ...

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me. By Michael David Lukas In late 2019, I came upon an article about Daf Yomi — the practice of reading a page of the Talmud every day over ...

“The words of the Torah should be burned rather than entrusted to women.” This is the stinging opinion of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, a second-century Jewish scholar, as expressed in the Talmud, a ...

In 1240, King Louis IX of France took the unusual step of holding a trial for the Talmud. Books rarely receive judicial proceedings, but Pope Gregory IX was urging European leaders to take action ...

The Talmud is almost as sacred to Jews as Scripture, but by no means does every Jew know what is in it. English editions of the 20-volume compilation of law and learning run to several hundred dollars ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) For some, the notion of delving into the Talmud in English for free with the click of a mouse was something they could only dream of. But now that dream is becoming a reality. On ...