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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
Elie Wiesel
Bible
Wait
Coffee
Must
Prophets
Mysticism
Instant
Until
Learned
Talmud
Tradition
Lot
Handle
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
Elie Wiesel
Happiness
Love
Great
Bible
About
Write
Talmud
Subjects
Commentary
Celebration
Wanted
Eternal
All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.
David Novak
Thought
Every
Think
Related
Some
Implication
Practical
Talmud
Questions
Discussed
Either
Literature
Act
Theoretical
Prescribed
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
Peter Eisenman
Me
History
Humor
Has-Been
Kind
Seems
David
Self-Critical
Self-Deprecating
Talmud
Been
Fan
Larry
Right
Jewish
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study.
Noah Feldman
Bible
Secular
Considers
Rigorous
Followed
Studied
Study
Alongside
Talmud
Traditional
Itself
Modern
Curriculum
Where
Orthodox
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.
Simon Schama
Religion
Bible
Writing
Political
Power
Military
Other
Jews
Ruins
Torah
Possible
Embedded
Carry
Invented
Shape
Talmud
Forms
Military Power
Now
Eventually
Away
Portable
Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.
Yair Lapid
Bible
Only
Talmud
Any
Barely
Teach
In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
Norman Lamm
Bible
Says
Study
Judaism
Talmud
Commandment
Commandments
Chief