Rabbi David Sedley

A repository of written, audio and video Torah classes given by Rabbi David Sedley

Category: talmud

  • Masechet Purim

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    I know that Purim is still a long way away, but I just discovered this fact (in the very interesting book Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg To Schottenstein Nowadays, a spoof of a current event has to be made within a few hours, or at most a few days, otherwise it loses its bite. However,… Read more

  • Rabbeinu Chananel

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    This shiur is really about the Rabbis of Kairouan and the codification of the Talmud. Having never heard of Kairouan at all until very recently it amazes me how many famous Rabbis lived there or learnt there. I have also wondered for many years about what made the Talmud a binding text on all of… Read more

  • Sources of Talmudic Sayings

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    I was just browsing randomly (I know – there is no such thing as random, but the beauty of the internet is that you can begin looking for an explanation of a gemara in Nida and end up in a California library), and discovered this book Echoes of Wisdom: It is a collection of sayings… Read more

  • Would you still be Religious?

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    Someone asked me the following question this week. This blog is my attempt at an answer (though I still don’t have a final answer, and may change my mind in the future) Let’s say archaeologists find writings from 2700 years ago, were King Josiah and the priests discuss the name of what is going to… Read more