Article: The Precarious Ties That Bind Us: Sotah 2a.(Critical Essay)

Editor's Introduction

For those not acquainted with talmudic study, it will be helpful to know that it is a twenty-five-hundred-year-old process of cooperative textual reasoning, which begins with the effort to understand the connection between the legal/philosophical code (the Mishna) and the Bible and ends by reaching into every conceivable area of Jewish -- and human -- interest. The opinions of generations of rabbis (and often the very lineage of their opinions) are recorded in a sort of free-form roundtable, omitting all the apparatus of introduction, transition and conclusion that we take for granted in intellectual discourse today. The task of the student ...

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