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This book provides an invaluable resource for a deeper understanding of the Babylonian Talmud, an ancient Jewish text. The Talmud is a collection of rabbinical writings comprising the Mishnah, a collection of laws and teachings, and the Gemara, an analysis of the Mishnah. The author has analyzed the original Hebrew text, removing interpolations and re-editing the text to make a more modern, readable version. The result is a more accessible text for those looking to study the history, ethics, law, and philosophy contained within this important religious text. This book is ideal for anyone interested in Jewish history, law, and tradition, or for those wishing to explore the origins of religious and ethical principles.
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Excerpt from New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Vol. 1: Tract Sabbath
The attacks on the Talmud have not been made by the enemies of the Jews alone. Large numbers of Jews themselves repudiate it, denying that they are Talmud Jews, or that they have any sympathy with it. Yet there are only the few Karaites in Russia and Austria, and the still-fewer Samaritans in Palestine, who are really not Talmud Jews. Radical and Reform, Conservative and Orthodox, not only find their exact counterparts in the Talmud, but also follow in many important particulars the practices in stituted through the Talmud, e.g., New Year's Day, Pentecost (as far as its date and significance are concerned), the qaddish, etc. The modern Jew is the product Of the Talmud, which we shall find is a work of the greatest sympathies, the most liberal im pulses, and the widest humanitarianism. Even the Jewish de fenders have played into the enemy's hands by their weak defences, of which such expressions as Remember the age in which it was written, or Christians are not meant by 'gentiles,' but only the Romans, or the people of Asia Minor, etc., may be taken as a type.
Amid its bitter enemies and weak friends the Talmud has suffered a martyrdom. Its eventful history is too well known to require detailing here. We feel that every attack on it is an attack upon the Jew. We feel that defence by the mere citation of phrases is useless and at the best weak. To answer the at tacks made upon it through ludicrous and garbled quotations were useless. There is only one defence that can be made in behalf of the Talmud. Let it plead its own cause in a modern language!
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