Gemara

Essential vocabulary for understanding the Talmud.

This almost 2,000-year-old text flies under the radar -- but it's immensely important to Jewish life.

An intergenerational rabbinic conversation that is studied, not read.

Early Amoraim engaged in respectful debate.

The preeminent sage of first century Palestine whose name is on Jewish campus organizations worldwide.

The grandson of Rashi and leader of medieval French Jewry.

A guide to the major sages and scholars known for their work on this canonical text.

Monotheism and the sanctification of the trivial

How the Talmud came to occupy its place in the canon of authoritative Jewish texts as the "Oral Torah"

The beloved Torah commentator also wrote a much-used commentary on the Talmud.