The New York Times gets it wrong.
Asher ben Yeḥiel.
The 500-year-old page layout reflects the text’s essence.
The Soul of the Mishnah.
And became a guest at the seder.
“One cannot really understand the truth if one does not understand the arguments that can be urged against it.”
The “Bruriah episode” and a medieval scribal error.
Talmudic medicine and bad research.
Dicta Maiven.
The Jerusalem Talmud by pen and press.
An explanation for talmudic attitudes toward craps players?
A talmudic legend of a wicked emperor’s demise, set to verse.
The sages downplay the role of God and sin in human illness and health.
The most polished writing and
sharpest analysis in the Jewish world.