The Essential Talmud Hanukka of blessed memory

of blessed memory

and the book’s enduring power

in a sudden moment of illumination

The reader’s experience will change from essay to essay and from person to person

CHICAGO JEWISH STAR

The Essential Talmud Hanukka of blessed memoryThe Essential Talmud is a masterful introduction by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz to the great repository of Jewish wisdom, the Talmud. A book of profound scholarship and concise pedagogy, The Essential Talmud succinctly describes the Talmuds history, structure, and methodology. It summarizes the Talmuds main principles, demonstrates its contemporary relevance, and captures the spirit of this unique and paradoxical sacred text as a human expression of divine