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The Essential Talmud: An Introduction

Written by: Adin Steinsaltz
Narrated by: Shlomo Zacks
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The Essential Talmud is a masterful introduction by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud. A book of profound scholarship and concise pedagogy, The Essential Talmud succinctly describes the Talmud's history, structure, and methodology. It summarizes the Talmud's main principles, demonstrates its contemporary relevance, and captures the spirit of this unique and paradoxical sacred text as a human expression of divine law.

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The second half of this book is what I thought the book would be (a breakdown of key Talmudic concepts across the various categories of thought touched on by the volumes). I felt, though, that the amount of focus on the historical background of the development of the Talmud was much more than warranted. The first half is a history book, and the second is an essential breakdown of the Talmud.

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