A Taste of Talmud
Joe Rosenstein
Is the Talmud a mystery to you? Here’s your chance to get a taste of how the Talmud works. In this course, we will study a few pages of the Talmud on topics ranging from returning lost objects to martyrdom, from reciting the sh’ma to conducting the seder. We will focus on the flavor of the discussion as much as on its content, so that participants will get an appreciation for how each page records debates involving people with different perspectives and conversations reaching across many generations. Translations and transliterations will be used to convey the meaning and sound of the text.
Joe Rosenstein is a founder and former chair of the NHC. He is the author of Siddur Eit Ratzon and Machzor Eit Ratzon and a member of the Highland Park (NJ) Minyan. In real life, he is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University whose focus is K-12 mathematics education. He and his wife Judy are blessed with five daughters, three sons-in-law, and four grandchildren.
Categories
- Text for Everyone
- Morning Course
