Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: An Introduction

Rabbi Steinsaltz introduces the "Oral Law" (the Talmud and associated works) and contrasts it with the "Written Law" (the Bible). He discusses some of the features that make the Talmud a unique work and suggests that it can only be understood properly if engaged interactively. The Written Law, which spans several centuries, serves as a reference and springboard for the Talmud and the rest of Jewish literature.

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[JosherForder]

The Tanakh teaches us Moses wrote all the words God commanded him for Israel to follow, and Joshua read all these words, which served as a covenant to the nation of Israel. - Shemohth′/Exodus 24:3, 4; 34:27; Yeshua‛/Joshua 8:34-35.

[DrBaruchdeSpinoza]

A Modern Great Sage and Tzaddik (Saint) living among us today. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, by far one of the Greatest Talmudic and Torah scholars in the history of the Nation of Israel and the world. A true Superman and a descendents of the Greats Sages of the Torahs.

-Baruch de Spinoza, Ph.D., Harvard University

[BrooklynNotQueens]

שלא עשני ליובאוויטשער

[1otterclan]

oh lord. anti semites thrive when they don't have to show there faces. cowardice in extreme

[Eliyahu775]

@YonaArieFeinberg Amen!

[Eliyahu775]

@stepheng1483 Whatever. You just want to hate and will make up any lame excuse to do so. Pathetic, really. Is this all your life amounts too? I pity you.

[Eliyahu775]

Why are there so many anti-semites all over? Can't these idiots get a life? There's more to life than hating Jews. You can come out of the Middle Ages now. We're in the 21st Century.

[stepheng1483]

@Eliyahu775 You are a liar, but that is what I have come to expect from a Jew.

[Eliyahu775]

@stepheng1483 I've not found any such thing in the Talmud. Secondly, if the Talmud was so secret, why on earth can you find it in just about any public or university library? Third, 'gentiles' convert to Judaism all the time. I know because I am a Jew by conversion. What then is your excuse for this hateful non-sense you're posting?

[Eliyahu775]

Is there any place a Jew can post without these idiots spouting their hateful non-sense? They can't back up anything that they say because they heard it from someone else, and probably didn't even bother to try to look it up themselves. I'll bet if they tried to look for it, they wouldn't find any of these alleged quotes. Then they would accuse us of erasing them.