Everyman's Talmud The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages

Name: Everyman's Talmud The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
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ISBN: 9780805210323

ISBN-10: 0805210326

ISBN-13: 9780805210323

Edition: 1995

Authors: Abraham Cohen

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"To some readers of this book, the Talmud represents little more than a famous Jewish book. But people want to know about a book that, they are told, defines Judaism. Everyman's Talmud is the right place to begin not only to learn about Judaism in general but to meet the substance of the Talmud in particular. . . . In time to come, Cohen's book will find its companion-though I do not anticipate it will ever require a successor for what it accomplishes with elegance and intelligence: a systematic theology of the Talmud's Judaism." --From the Foreword by Jacob Neusner Long regarded as the classic introduction to the teachings of the Talmud, this comprehensive and masterly distillation…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/7/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.99" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Introduction



Historical Antecedents



The Mishnah



Gemara and Midrash



The Doctrine of God



Existence



Unity



Incorporeality



Omnipresence



Omnipotence



Omniscience



Eternity



Justice and Mercy



Fatherhood



Holiness and Perfection



The Ineffable Name



God and the Universe



Cosmology



Transcendence and Immanence



Angelology



Israel and the Nations



The Doctrine of Man



The Human Being



The Soul



Faith and Prayer



The Two Impulses



Free Will



Sin



Repentance and Atonement



Reward and Punishment



Revelation



Prophecy



The Torah



Study of the Torah



The Written Torah



The Oral Torah



The Practice of Torah



Domestic Life



Woman



Marriage and Divorce



Children



Education



Filial Piety



Social Life



The Individual and the Community



Labour



Master and Workman



Peace and Justice



The Moral Life



Imitation of God



Brotherly Love



Humility



Charity



Honesty



Forgiveness



Temperance



Duty to Animals



The Physical Life



Care of the Body



Rules of Health



Dietetics



Treatment of Disease



Folk-Lore



Demonology



The Evil Eye



Magic and Divination



Dreams



Superstitions



Jurisprudence



The Courts



Judges and Witnesses



The Trial



Modes of Punishment



Torts



Found Property



Bailment



Tenancy



Sale and Delivery



Prescriptive Right



Inheritance



The Hereafter



The Messiah



Resurrection of the Dead



The World to Come



The Last Judgment



Gehinnom



Gan Eden


Selected Bibliography


Index