| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 368 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Part I -- Prologue -- What Is the Talmud? -- Before the Bookshelf -- Beneath the Surface -- How to Use this Book: A Sample Entry -- Part II -- The Six Orders And The Encampments by The Water -- Seder Zeraim -- A handful cannot satisfy the lion. -- The prisoner cannot free himself from prison. -- The tablets and the broken tablets were placed in the Ark. -- Mitzvot require proper intention. -- A person should never give Satan an opening. -- The Torah was not given to the ministering angels |
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His inside is not like his outside. The gates of tears are not closed. -- Go and see what the people are doing. -- A mitzvah performed by means of a transgression. -- The frequent and the infrequent�the frequent take precedence. -- A person must bless God for the bad just as one must bless God for the good. -- What does a good guest say? How much trouble has my host gone to just for me! -- Rest Stop -- Seder Moed I -- One who gives a gift to a friend must inform him. -- We raise up in matters of holiness, not bring down |
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A verse never loses its contextual meaning. Wherever the sages prohibited something because of appearance's sake, it is also prohibited in private. -- Can you cut off its head without it dying? -- We do not bring proof from fools! -- Like a groom among mourners ... Like a mourner among grooms. -- Both are the words of the living God. -- Even if for the wrong reason, eventually it will be for the right reason. -- We do not rely on a miracle. -- How precious is a mitzvah in its proper time. -- The cow wants to nurse more than the calf wants to suckle |
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Begin with disgrace, and end with praise. The diligent do the mitzvot as early as possible. -- The Torah worries about Israel's money. -- Rest Stop -- Seder Moed II -- One who is doing one mitzvah is freed from doing another mitzvah. -- An emergency situation does not constitute proof. -- Better that they be uninformed transgressors than deliberate transgressors. -- We add from the ordinary onto the sacred. -- Jephthah in his generation is like Samuel in his generation. -- Blessing is found only in that which is hidden from the eye |
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We do not overburden the community. He immerses ... with a reptile in his hand. -- A person should always be as bending as a reed, not as rigid as the cedar. -- If a person says to you: I have labored but did not find, do not believe it! -- A word costs a sela, silence goes for two. -- Wherever you find the strength of the Holy One, praised be He, you find His humility. -- One does not mix one happy occasion with another. -- Part of a day is like a whole day. -- Life, children, and food are matters that depend not on merit, but on luck |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327) and indexes |
| Notes |
English and Hebrew |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Talmud -- Introductions
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Talmud fast |
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Talmud gnd |
| Subject |
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Talmud.
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| Genre/Form |
Introductions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schwartz, Gershon
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| LC no. |
97006195 |
| ISBN |
9780827609730 |
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0827609736 |
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