About This Course Talmud (literally, “study”) is the generic term for the documents that comment and expand upon the Mishnah (“repeating”), the first work of rabbinic law, published around the year 200 CE by Rabbi Judah the Patriarch in the land of Israel.As we saw in our first course, although …
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Jewish History I: The Roots of Modern Jewish Civilization
About This Course This course is designed to provide a survey of Jewish history between Antiquity and the early Medieval period through studying how Rabbinic Judaism emerged to become the normative form of Judaism. This course depends heavily on your participation in the Slack channel. You …
Talmud 1
Dear Holy Students of Torah, Welcome to Talmud 101 at PRS. My name is Rabbi Dr. Eric L. Wasser and I am truly excited to journey with you through a number of sections of Jewish texts, as we together investigate how Talmudic literature uniquely functions simultaneously in the realms of law, …