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    The Shining Is About What?

    Room 237 uses Talmudic exegesis to uncover whether Kubrick’s film is about Indians, the Holocaust, or bears

    byJ. Hoberman
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Masaaki Miyara/Flickr)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Masaaki Miyara/Flickr)
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    Does God Care About Shoes?

    In this week’s Talmud study, Jewishness is not just moral and theological matters. It is a way of life.

    byAdam Kirsch
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Mario Tama/Getty Images.)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Mario Tama/Getty Images.)
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    The Right Way to Pray

    One Talmudic rabbi’s prayers work, while others’ fall on deaf ears. Is humility more pleasing to God than pomp?

    byAdam Kirsch
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Pim Geerts/Flickr)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Pim Geerts/Flickr)
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    Talmudic Rebbe-llion

    A coup at the rabbinic academy deposes Gamliel and unleashes a torrent of questions

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Talmud’s Warriors and Scholars

    This week’s Daf Yomi reframes the debate over the primacy of force or scholarship in Jewish values

    byAdam Kirsch
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Michael Broad/Flickr)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Michael Broad/Flickr)
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    The Talmud’s Many Demons

    Sages in a superstitious age accepted the existence of invisible devils and the use of magic to render them visible

    byAdam Kirsch
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    A Talmudic Journey Begins

    Our book critic dives into Daf Yomi’s daily regimen expecting a law code, but instead finds a chain of questions

    byAdam Kirsch
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