In Tractate Makkot, the Talmud teaches us how to encounter the Divine, each other, and ourselves
In Tractate Bava Batra, the Talmud gives us wild nautical stories to remind us that life is like a wave, no less powerful and awe-inspiring for being all too short
In Tractate Bava Metzia, the Talmud emerges as the Jewish people’s timeless sanctuary
Tzvi grew up Haredi in Flatbush. Now he’s the director of ‘Killer of Men,’ an acclaimed new film produced by Cary Woods.
The rabbis wrestled with the celestial event, but there is still an appropriate religious way to mark it
In Tractate Bava Kama, the Talmud teaches us how to be religious by minding life’s most mundane details
It’s the greatest self-help book ever written. And isn’t that what we need right now?
In Tractate Kiddushin, the Talmud reminds us that in love—as in life—inspiration follows preparation
While studying another arcane tractate of the Talmud, I recall my childhood lessons with my father and my struggle to understand everything he taught me
In the discourse about divorce in Tractate Gittin, the Talmud gives us closure when love expires
In Tractate Sotah, the Talmud gives us a master class in how to restore trust
In Tractate Nedarim, the Talmud teaches us that what we say really, really matters
To preserve our human reality, we must make our new technologies more like the Talmud
In Tractate Ketubot, the Talmud gives us a master class in everlasting love
In Tractate Yevamot, the Talmud teaches us that being Jewish is about much more than religion
Ultra-Orthodox women take up Talmud study
In Tractate Chagigah, the Talmud teaches us to prize experience, not information
In Tractate Moed Katan, the Talmud teaches us the only life lesson we need
