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Full Cycle: Celebrating 2,711 Days of Text Study
Eytan Kobre | Fri. Feb 25, 2005
On March 1, tens of thousands of Jews will join together to celebrate an event called the Siyum HaShas at numerous locations across the country, including New York’s Madison Square Garden. This celebration marks the completion of the entire Babylonian Talmud, a culmination of seven-and-one-half years of study at an inexorable
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A Novel Takes Talmudic Shape
Michael Greenstein | Fri. Feb 25, 2005
Apikoros Sleuth By Robert Majzels The Mercury Press, 110 pages, $19.95. —–Quebec translator, playwright and novelist Robert Majzels has composed his most demanding work in his third novel, “Apikoros Sleuth,” as he stretches the genre to its limits. Replete with Joycean puns, neologisms and vertical, horizontal, and marginal lines
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Artscroll Readers of All Stripes Find Meaning in Translation
Miriam Shaviv | Fri. Feb 25, 2005
Just before 6 a.m. on each weekday, members of Toronto’s Beth Avraham Yosef synagogue make their way across a snowy parking lot to the first of the congregation’s three daily Talmud classes.About half of them are holding under their arms a volume of the Artscroll Talmud.According to the synagogue’s religious leader, Rabbi Baruch Taub, they
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