It was chavruta, a method used by Talmud scholars in which pairs of students debate and ask one another questions based on ancient rabbinic texts. “When I read about chavruta, I immediately felt ...

Modern application of Talmudic principles using ETFs focuses on balancing growth and income. Check out the Talmudic investment strategy here.

Unearthed in Upper Galilee, 3rd century CE artifact might prove rumored tensions between Emperor Diocletian and local ...

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

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

We’ll go back to biblical narrative to focus on the donkey who accompanies Abraham on his journey to sacrifice his son Isaac, and we’ll trace from Palestinian midrash to the Babylonian Talmud a motif ...

The Mishnah was formed due to fear that the Jewish people would lose their unity and beliefs if they were not in the Holy City.

The ner tamid burns continuously to show that God is always present. The Talmud states that when ten or more Jews are gathered in prayer, God is present. Jews refer to this group prayer as a minyan.

The chance to partake in an introductory course in Talmudic literacy is an opportunity that should be grasped with great ...

The Talmud, a collection of teachings, commentaries and debates from rabbis, says that the leader of that group of Jewish fighters entered the temple after recapturing it and found a small remnant ...