Talmud

Parashat Mishpatim: All or nothing

Loyalty to a path means saying, “I belong. Sometimes I will fail, sometimes I will err, but I am all in.” This is completely different from saying “I like this, but I don’t like that.”

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 Israeli Police and IDF solodiers in line to pay their respects as the funeral procession of St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili, the last hostage from Gaza, makes its way to Gvili's Negev hometown of Meitar on Jan. 28, 2026.

Israel’s internal clash, not consensus, saved the hostages - opinion

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What honoring our parents teaches us about faith, logic, and Judaism

Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir walks inside the Knesset, on the day US President Donald Trump delivers remarks, in Jerusalem, October 13, 2025.

Moral, legal issues with Israel’s terrorist death penalty - opinion


The ‘Talmudic Encyclopedia’ enters the home stretch to completion

The editors of the massive work – begun in 1947 – will be finishing their project by 2024.

 RABBI PROF. AVRAHAM STEINBERG (R) with the Talmudic Encyclopedia’ set.

Agunah Day as the aftermath of war

While Jewish law bends over backwards to resolve this human tragedy, by wisely loosening the strictures of proof of death ordinarily demanded by Jewish law.

 RABBI PROF. Michael J. Broyde delivers an address about the Tripartite Agreement at an event in 2019.

TikTok Talmud: How Miriam Anzovin brought Daf Yomi to young people

Anzovin succeeded at every educator's dream – making difficult material relevant to their audience.

 SCREEN GRAB from 'Daf Reactions!'

Daf Yomi on TikTok

We always face the challenge of popularizing Torah while maintaining its integrity and preserving our reverence for Torah.

 'And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God' (Exodus - Tetzaveh)

Meet the TikTok star making Daf Yomi relatable for millennials, Gen Z

Miriam Anzovin is the millennial TikToker making Gemara more accessible on one of today's leading social media platforms.

 Miriam Anzovin

Judaism's take on the darkness that winter brings

It is hardly a coincidence that for thousands of years, many cultures and religions have held festivals of light at this time of the year.

 WHILE IT is the darkest time of the year, in the next instant, the move toward lightening begins.

Bringing the Talmud to life - book review

The book The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave expresses less-studied emotional, interpersonal aspects of the rabbis in the Talmud.

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German Talmud translation from 1935 goes online

The translation is a way to make Jewish texts available to a new generation of German Jews.

"Go and observe what the people are doing.” – Babylonian Talmud

Meet the Jewish couple funding Christian missionary hospitals in Africa

“We feel animated by the Talmudic teaching that saving a single life is saving a world,” said Rabbi Erica Gerson.

A volunteer receives an injection in a human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020

In Israel, a chicken farm released special-edition eggs to mark egg-related Talmud study milestone

“We will return to you, Tractate Beitzah,” the eggs read in Hebrew. “Be strong and take courage, from the chicken coops of Kedumim.”

Michelle Cohen Farber's Daf Yomi women group studying Talmud in Ran'ana.