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  • I saw shadowy rooms paneled in dark walnut and furnished with cumbersome pieces in mission oak; on one table would be the menorah, its candles in orderly array but unlit, while nearby on another table would be the Torah, or perhaps the Talmud, opened to a page which had just undergone pious scrutiny by the elder Lapidus.†   (source)
  • By day the Talmud, at night the cabbala.†   (source)
  • I just get so tired of studying only Talmud all the time.†   (source)
  • With some of my school-mates, I sat in the Ezra Malik gardens, studying a treatise on the Talmud.†   (source)
  • I have to sweat to memorize a page of Talmud.†   (source)
  • Then he clasped both hands together and rested them on top of the Talmud.†   (source)
  • The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames.†   (source)
  • Everybody has to do two blatt of Talmud a day and his English?†   (source)
  • They had laughed at him because he was always praying or meditating on some problem of the Talmud.†   (source)
  • He took the hand away from his face and let it drop to the Talmud.†   (source)
  • You will find it all in the Bible, Talmud, and Kabbalah.†   (source)
  • Except when you study Talmud or he explodes.†   (source)
  • Danny, on the other hand, had his daily Talmud goal increased to three blatt by his father.†   (source)
  • Now you tell me a person must know grammar to know Talmud.†   (source)
  • Oh,, he talks plenty when we're studying Talmud together.†   (source)
  • But he makes a joke or something, and we go into a Talmud discussion.†   (source)
  • I'm studying Talmud with my father," I said.†   (source)
  • Can you study Talmud without the commentaries?†   (source)
  • Danny would take me up to his father's study, and we would all do battle again over the Talmud.†   (source)
  • The ease and certainty he had worn during the Talmud quiz had disappeared.†   (source)
  • I told him my father and I were studying Talmud together on Shabbat.†   (source)
  • I look at a page of Talmud, and I remember it by heart.†   (source)
  • I thought you people always studied Talmud.†   (source)
  • There is a joke in the Talmud we did not see?†   (source)
  • The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself.†   (source)
  • "I forgot what it was like to study Talmud," he said excitedly.†   (source)
  • How else would Reb Saunders' people know that Danny has a head for Talmud?†   (source)
  • Now I began to study Talmud in the evenings as well.†   (source)
  • Your father is David Maker, the one who writes articles on the Talmud?†   (source)
  • They don't let you study just Talmud in that college.†   (source)
  • I study my quota of Talmud every day, and he doesn't care what I do the rest of the time.†   (source)
  • He was staring down at the Talmud, and smiling.†   (source)
  • They love to hear the Talmud discussed like that.†   (source)
  • "Tell me, Reuven," he said gently, "do you study Talmud with your father?"†   (source)
  • He had to be studied like a page of Talmud.†   (source)
  • "You'll come over sometimes on a Saturday and we'll study Talmud with my father?" he asked.†   (source)
  • When he was young, he found that the Talmud could not satisfy his hunger for knowledge.†   (source)
  • All my life I have studied Talmud and paid no attention to grammar.†   (source)
  • Slowly, he closed the Talmud from which he and Danny had been studying.†   (source)
  • Then we'll just have the Talmud discussions.†   (source)
  • He began by teaching him Talmud, but Israel seemed very uninterested in Talmud.†   (source)
  • Then he opened his eyes and stared down at the closed Talmud on the desk.†   (source)
  • But we don't talk anymore, except when we study Talmud.†   (source)
  • I was constantly being reminded by these dialogues of the way Danny argued Talmud with his father.†   (source)
  • If he studies Talmud like that, he's dead," Sidney Goldberg said.†   (source)
  • But you don't have to do two blatt of Talmud a day.†   (source)
  • It is a pity he occupies his mind only with Talmud.†   (source)
  • But I don't think I want to study any Talmud this morning.†   (source)
  • And then I began to do something I had never done before with the Talmud I studied in school.†   (source)
  • But it was not the Talmud that he studied, it was the Kabbalah, the books of Jewish mysticism.†   (source)
  • Instead of studying Talmud with him on the Shabbat, I studied alone while he slept.†   (source)
  • Rav Gershenson stared down at the open Talmud on his desk.†   (source)
  • Others; were very sincere, and a few were even great scholars of the Talmud.†   (source)
  • He would recite whole pages of the Talmud from memory, argue with himself, ask himself questions and answer himself.†   (source)
  • He greeted me with a curt nod of his head and muttered something about not really being in the mood for Talmud now but we had to go up anyway.†   (source)
  • Rav Schwartz was my Talmud teacher.†   (source)
  • I began especially to study Talmud.†   (source)
  • That was the first time in my life I had ever heard a rabbi admit that he didn't understand a passage of Talmud.†   (source)
  • Danny caught his father in a misquote, ran to get a Talmud from a shelf, and triumphantly showed his father where he had been wrong.†   (source)
  • I searched endlessly through all the cross-references and all the parallel passages in the Palestinian Talmud.†   (source)
  • I told him we study Talmud on Shabbat.†   (source)
  • Inductive logic, Freud, experimental psychology, mathematizing hypotheses, scientific study of the Talmud.†   (source)
  • I was sitting at a table preparing for the Talmud session, when I saw him pass me and nod his head in the direction of the door.†   (source)
  • I ended by saying I felt certain that was the text of the Talmud manuscript the commentator had had before him when he had written his commentary.†   (source)
  • —The Talmud CHAPTER THIRTEEN BY THE END of our first week in college, Danny was feeling thoroughly miserable.†   (source)
  • He stopped and looked down at an open Talmud on his desk: "How did he come to meet your father in the library?" he asked, looking down at the Talmud.†   (source)
  • I was being called on regularly now in the Talmud class, and there were no silences when I read and explained a passage.†   (source)
  • The rabbis spoke only Yiddish in the Talmud classes, but the students could speak Yiddish or English.†   (source)
  • And from one to three we would have the actual Talmud session itself, the shiur, with Rav Gersherison.†   (source)
  • I asked him what he would be doing that summer, and he told me he always stayed home in the summer, studying Talmud.†   (source)
  • He and his father were studying Talmud.†   (source)
  • He was the talk of the Talmud Department by the end of two weeks and the accepted referee of all Talmudic arguments among the students.†   (source)
  • I kept a finger of my right hand on the appropriate place in the text, flipped the Talmud to where the commentary had been printed, and read from it.†   (source)
  • A Talmud lay open on top of the papers.†   (source)
  • I remembered Danny telling me that Rav Gershenson knew all about the critical method of studying Talmud, and hated it.†   (source)
  • The complication was caused not only by the Talmud text itself, which seemed filled with gaps, but by the commentaries that struggled to explain it.†   (source)
  • He was holding his head in the palms of his hands, the elbows on the open Talmud in front of him, and listening intently.†   (source)
  • For the first part of the day, from nine in the morning to three in the afternoon, we studied only Talmud.†   (source)
  • In some Hasidic sects, the study of the Talmud became as important as it had been before the time of the Besht.†   (source)
  • Danny shook his head, still smiling, bent over the Talmud, and began to give his version of the passage.†   (source)
  • Danny's gloom and frustration grew worse day by day, despite the fact that the students in his Talmud class looked upon him with open-mouthed awe.†   (source)
  • I bent over my Talmud, put the index finger of my right hand below the first word of the passage, and began to read.†   (source)
  • That was four pages of Talmud a day.†   (source)
  • I began to wonder how it was possible for the ideas of the Talmud and the thinking of Freud to live side by side within one person.†   (source)
  • A rabbinic ordination from its Talmud faculty was looked upon as the highest of Orthodox Jewish honors.†   (source)
  • Talmud is so easy for me now, I didn't remember what I used to go through when I first started it as a kid.†   (source)
  • Its emptiness whispered echoes at me: mistakes, gematriya, Talmud quizzes, and Reb Saunders staring at my left eye.†   (source)
  • I tried to finish my college work as quickly as I could, then I would turn to the passage of Talmud we were studying with Rav Gershenson.†   (source)
  • He used his hands constantly as he talked, and when he did not talk his fingers drummed on his desk or on the open Talmud in front of him.†   (source)
  • There would be a long, dreaded silence, during which Rav Gershenson's fingers would begin to drum upon his desk or his Talmud.†   (source)
  • "Tell me more about grammar in the Talmud, Reuven," he said to me, with a gentle hint of mockery in his voice.†   (source)
  • Some of the seats were occupied by men studying Talmud, reading from the Book of Psalms, or talking among themselves in Yiddish.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me suddenly that not a single word had passed between him and his father all evening, except for the Talmud contest.†   (source)
  • During the entire month I spent in Reb Saunders' house, the only time I ever saw him talk to Danny was when we argued over the Talmud.†   (source)
  • On Fridays from nine to one, we attended the college; on Sundays, during that same time span, we studied Talmud.†   (source)
  • In the past, I had done all my Talmud studying on Shabbat and during the morning preparation periods.†   (source)
  • Pilpul, these discussions are called—empty, nonsensical arguments over minute points of the Talmud that have no relation at all to the world.†   (source)
  • Virtuosity in Talmud was the achievement most sought after by every student of a yeshiva, for it was the automatic guarantee of a reputation for brilliance.†   (source)
  • He wants to study Talmud, abba.†   (source)
  • Had I ever sat in a bus with my father for hours and not exchanged a single word of conversation, except for a short discussion about a passage of Talmud?†   (source)
  • They had had an argument over a passage of Talmud, they told him, each of them interpreting it in a different way, and they wondered who had been correct.†   (source)
  • Three days later, we came to that passage in our Talmud class, and for the second time that year Rav Gershenson called out my name and asked me to read and explain.†   (source)
  • You remember what the Talmud says.†   (source)
  • I would study it carefully, memorize it, find the various commentaries-— those which were not printed in the Talmud itself could always be found in my father's library—and memorize them.†   (source)
  • I explained the Mishnah carefully, showed why there was a contradiction, then read from the commentaries of Rashi and the Tosafists, both of which are printed on the same page as the Talmud text.†   (source)
  • He laid heavy emphasis on the early and late medieval Talmudic commentators, and we were always expected to come to class knowing the Talmud text and these commentators in advance.†   (source)
  • Reb Saunders asked me quietly why I wasn't coming over to see him anymore, and I explained that my father and I were studying Talmud together on Shabbat aftenoons.†   (source)
  • Danny always spent his mornings studying Talmud, so I decided that rather than waste the day I would go over to the college library and see if I could find something on experimental psychology.†   (source)
  • What Talmud are you studying now?†   (source)
  • I then indicated that other commentaries had offered different explanations, and I cited them by heart because they were not found in the Talmud edition the class used.†   (source)
  • Except when they study Talmud.†   (source)
  • As a result of my night sessions with Talmud, I had pulled ahead of the class by at least five or six days and was tangled in one of the most complicated discussions I had ever encountered.†   (source)
  • Then, slowly, he moved his right hand across the closed Talmud, and his fingers caressed the Hebrew title of the tractate that was stamped into the spine of the binding.†   (source)
  • He was a great Talmudist, but he had been trained in a European yeshiva, and I didn't think he would take kindly to the scientific method of studying Talmud.†   (source)
  • The hours of the Talmud classes in the school were arranged in such a way that we were able to spend from nine in the morning to noon preparing the material to be studied with Rav Gershenson.†   (source)
  • He covered his eyes and nose with his right hand and leaned forward, his elbow on the open Talmud, the upper portion of his body swaying slowly back and forth.†   (source)
  • I realized soon enough that the Pirkei Avot text was merely being used as a sort of jumping-off point for them, because they were soon ranging through most of the major tractates of the Talmud again.†   (source)
  • I also received an A in Talmud, despite the fact that Rav Gershenson had only called on me once during the entire four-month period I had spent in his class.†   (source)
  • I found that I liked this class arrangement very much; it divided my work neatly and made it easy for me to concentrate separately upon Talmud and college subjects.†   (source)
  • Our Shabbat afternoon Talmud sessions had stopped; my father spent all of Shabbat resting so as to be prepared for each coming week of furious activity.†   (source)
  • But it proved to be a good deal more difficult to forget him than I had anticipated, mostly because I had been moved up into Rav Gershenson's Talmud class where Danny's presence was always felt.†   (source)
  • I get bored studying just Talmud.†   (source)
  • I discovered that my father's method of teaching me Talmud and his patient insistence that I learn Talmudic grammar—I had . painfully memorized an Aramaic grammar book—was now standing me in good stead.†   (source)
  • Imagine Talmud without Rashi.†   (source)
  • He was very quiet during the first few minutes of the Talmud battle, and though I tried to make up for his silence by increasing the volume of my own enthusiasm, I could see that Reb Saunders was becoming more and more annoyed by his son's lack of participation.†   (source)
  • Danny knew enough about Freud now—his method of study had been so thoroughly successful—that he was able to use Freud's technical terminology with the same: kind of natural ease that characterized our use of the technical terminology of the Talmud.†   (source)
  • He was an exciting teacher, though, and he taught Talmud the way my father did, in depth, concentrating for days on a few lines and moving on only when he was satisfied that we understood everything thoroughly.†   (source)
  • I study Talmud on Shabbat.†   (source)
  • It waited through my midyear exams and through the first two weeks of February, when I managed to get to Danny's house twice and we fought our customary Talmud battles together with his father but didn't get a chance to be alone long enough for us to talk.†   (source)
  • Neither of them seemed at all surprised to hear my voice—I had the feeling they were surprised they hadn't heard it sooner—and from that point on the three of us seesawed back and forth through the infinite intricacies of the Talmud.†   (source)
  • What's your quota of Talmud?†   (source)
  • We would rise a little before seven, go down to the synagogue to pray the Morning Service with the congregation, have breakfast with the family, then go out onto his porch if the day was nice, or stay in his room if it wasn't, and spend the morning studying Talmud.†   (source)
  • There was almost always a point at which the student who was reading the text would become bogged down by the cumulative intricacies of the questions and would stare down at his Talmud, drowning in the shame produced by his inability to answer.†   (source)
  • The Talmud contains no punctuation marks, and it is not always a simple matter to determine where a thought unit begins and ends; occasionally, a passage will have a tight, organic flow to it which makes breaking it up into thought units difficult and somewhat arbitrary.†   (source)
  • One of his Talmud teachers described his devoutness and dedication to Judaism, his mathematics professor talked about his brilliance as a student, and one of the members of the senior class told of the way he had always spoken of going to Israel.†   (source)
  • I took the huge volumes of the Palestinian Talmud from my father's library—the text we studied in school was the Babylonian Talmud—and checked its parallel discussions just to see how it differed from the discussions in the Babylonian Talmud.†   (source)
  • He also believed—and here is where he brought down upon himself the rage of the learned rabbis—that the study of Talmud was not very important, that there need not be fixed times for prayers, that God could be worshiped through a sincere heart, through joy and singing and dancing.†   (source)
  • Except when we study Talmud.†   (source)
  • But to the students of most of the parochial schools, an inter-league baseball victory had come to take on only a shade less significance than a top grade in Talmud, for it was an unquestioned mark of one's Americanism, and to be counted a loyal American had become increasingly important to us during these last years of the war.†   (source)
  • I was witnessing a kind of public quiz, but a strange, almost bizarre quiz, more a contest than a quiz, because Reb Saunders was not confining his questions only to what Danny had learned during the week but was ranging over most of the major tractates of the Talmud and Danny was obviously required to provide the answers.†   (source)
  • You only study Talmud?†   (source)
  • He teaches Talmud there.†   (source)
  • Some of the Hasidic students in the class were giving me mixed looks of awe and jealousy, as if they couldn't restrain their feelings of admiration over how well I was doing but at the same time were asking themselves how someone like: me, a Zionist and the son of a man who wrote apikorsische articles, could possibly know Talmud so well.†   (source)
  • His father asked how could the commentator have offered such an interpretation when in another passage in the Talmud he had said exactly the opposite, and Danny, very quietly, calmly, his fingers still playing with the rim of the paper plate, found a difference between the contradictory statements by quoting two other sources where one of the statements appeared in a somewhat different context, thereby nullifying the contradiction.†   (source)
  • "Talmud," I said.†   (source)
  • We would have supper together with Danny's family, then spend the evening either chatting with his sister and mother in the living room or reading quietly—Danny used the evenings to read the books on Jewish subjects I kept giving him—or, if his father was free, we would go up to the study and do battle over the Talmud.†   (source)
  • He seemed impatient each time he came to the foot of a page, and he flipped the page with a quick gesture of his right hand, wetting the forefinger with his tongue and turning the page by pushing upward with the finger against the lower right-hand corner, the way one does a page of Talmud—except that with a Talmud the left forefinger usually pushes against the lower left-hand corner because it is read from right to left.†   (source)
  • Danny spent his mornings studying Talmud, either alone or with his father, while I spent Monday, Wednesday, and Fridsiy mornings playing ball with my yeshiva friends, none of whom seemed to be bothered by my friendship with Danny—they accepted it and just didn't talk about it—and Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday mornings studying Talmud with my father, either on our back porch when it was a nice day or in his study when it was not.†   (source)
  • I found I was enjoying it all immensely, and once I even caught myself reading aloud from a Talmud—it was the grammatical discussion of the gender of "derech," road, in the tractate Kiddushin— before Reb Saunders realized what I was doing and told me to stop, I wasn't allowed to use my eye yet, Danny would read the passage.†   (source)
  • I read aloud a thought unit that consisted of a citation from the Mishnah—the Mishnah is the written text of rabbinic oral law; in form and content it is for the most part terse and clipped, a vast collection of laws upon which are based almost all the rabbinic discussions which, together with the Mishnah, compose the Talmud.†   (source)
  • We did not study Talmud.†   (source)
  • "I swear by the Talmud," said the Jew, "that your valour has been misled in that matter.†   (source)
  • Having been examined in his godly skills by the rabbi, who then authorized him to slaughter acceptable animals according to the Law of Moses and the regulations of the Talmud, Elia Naphta was himself filled with a quiet religiosity; there had been something priestly about him and his blue eyes, which, as his son described them, had glittered like stars and radiated a solemnity recalling ancient times when the slaughtering of animals had indeed been the duty of priests.†   (source)
  • The Jew born in sight of the Temple despised these brethren of the north; but the Talmud itself has said, "The Galilean loves honor, and the Jew money."†   (source)
  • Thus the Talmud.†   (source)
  • Philosophy of the Talmud (sewn pamphlet).†   (source)
  • …Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth, Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto…†   (source)
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