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Wisdom of the Talmud

Written by: Ben Zion Bokser
Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
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This is a highly comprehensive introduction to the Talmud, the age-old storehouse of Jewish wisdom. Bokser covers the long history of the Talmud, from its origin in the Babylonian exile, its growth through the five centuries after the Roman destruction of the Temple, and the later persecution of the Talmud. The book covers a number of high-level topics, including social ethics and personal morality, with numerous examples from the Talmud. Ben Zion Bokser was one of the major Conservative rabbis of America. He stressed the Rabbinic sages and the Talmud as the source of Judaism. "This is not an uncommon impression and one finds it sometimes among Jews as well as Christians - that Judaism is the religion of the Hebrew Bible. It is, of course, a fallacious impression. Judaism is not the religion of the Bible." Bokser affirms revelation, but revelation is always framed in humans by man. "Man receives a divine communication when the divine spirit rests on him, but man must give form to that communication."

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This Narrator cannot pronounce Deuteronomy correctly. Given the nature of the book it gets one star.
The book itself just seems to be a long winded rant about the benefits of the Talmud without actually giving the Talmud.
The clear subtext of anti Christianity or the New Docterine as he calls it.
The real question is and Jesus had a problem with the Talmud being equal with scripture to some.
By there own acknowledgement it is not inspired. I enjoy jewish though greatly and honor their traditions.
The end of the temple had required great leaps and bounds but the other path has been open for quite a while.

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