It is a commitment like few others. These are the words that opened an article I penned seven and a half years ago. The time was August 2012. My soldier-sons were still in middle school. My ...

Just as every cell in a human body contains a complete set of its DNA, so every page of the Talmud – the immense law code that defines traditional Jewish life and belief – encodes the whole history of ...

They have made it less intimidating. The women who have been learning a page of Talmud a day since 2012, when the last seven and a half year Daf Yomi cycle have created a new reality with their study.

(JTA) — Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinzaltz, the acclaimed scholar whose landmark translation of the Talmud enabled a vast readership to access one of Judaism’s most canonical texts, has died.

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me. By Michael David Lukas In late 2019, I came upon an article about Daf Yomi — the practice of reading a page of the Talmud every day over ...

It is a commitment like few others. Seven and a half years of daily study ‎‎– every day, no time off, no vacations, no holiday breaks, in sickness ‎and health, at home and while traveling. Started ...