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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions - Reading Tractate Horayot of the Babylonian Talmud (Paperback, New)
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions - Reading Tractate Horayot of the Babylonian Talmud (Paperback, New)
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Comprised of debates among the rabbis of late antiquity in the
aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), the
Talmud has provided the basis for Jewish ethical and practical
norms for centuries. It is also an extremely long and forbiddingly
difficult work that has accumulated countless commentaries just as
complex over the ages. A recent translation with extensive notes
has made it more accessible to English-language readers, but the
textual difficulties remain. This volume looks at the tractate
Horayot (Decisions), page by page, and offers a modern commentary
with doses of humor and comparative examples in an effort to both
explain and humanize the text and make it even more accessible to
contemporary readers. The central focus concerns how to adjudicate
cases when the governing body, the Sanhedrin, incorrectly
designates certain practices legal and people follow the erroneous
advice as a result.
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