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Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.
Yair Lapid / Former Finance Minister Of Israel
Bible
Barely
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I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Constant
Struggle
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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
Abraham Cahan / Editor
Fasting
Please
Praying
Study
God More Than
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In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
Norman Lamm / Rabbi
Bible
Biblical
Chiefs
Judaism
Study
Chief
Commandment
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon / Former Lord Chancellor
Atheism
Believe
Fables
Mind
Legend
Frame
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I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
Elie Wiesel / Professor
Bible
Celebration
Commentary
Eternal
Subjects
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I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
Peter Eisenman / Architect
Humor
Fans
Kind
Larry
Self
Self Deprecating
Jewish
David
Self-Critical
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Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.
Meir Soloveichik /
Bible
Forth
Jews
Seek
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The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study.
Noah Feldman / Author
Bible
Curriculum
Orthodox
Secular
Traditional
Alongside
Considers
Followed
Rigorous
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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
Elie Wiesel / Professor
Bible
Coffee
Handle
Instant
Mysticism
Tradition
Waiting
Wait
Prophets
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On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.
David Steinberg /
Curb
Enthusiasm
Always Your Me
Analyze
Me Always Your
Reminds
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My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.
Norman Lamm / Rabbi
Family Tradition
Father
Mother
Scholar
Tradition
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Whose
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
Abraham Cahan / Editor
Distinction
People
Race
Spiritual
Spiritual Life
Vigor
Life Important People
Life People True
Be True
Represent
Due
Extremely
High Percentage
Important Part
Measure
Mental
Our People
Percentage
Studies
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I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.
Michel Onfray / Philosopher
Atheist
Brotherhood
Concepts
Feminism
Ideals
Logic
Philosophy
Point Of View
Secularism
Writing
Utter
Constitute
Sworn
Talmud
Therefore
Writings
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The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.
Simon Schama / Art Historian
Religion
Bible
Embedded
Military
Military Power
Political
Ruins
Torah
Writing
Power Religion Political
Forms
Carry
Eventually
Invented
Jews
Portable
Shape
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All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.
David Novak /
Literature
Related
Theoretical
Discussed
Implication
Practical
Prescribed
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The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story.
Simon Schama / Art Historian
Architecture
Bible
Discipline
Flourishing
Jewish
Formative
Images
Jews
Scholars
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Texts
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