Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism
faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the
next few centuries immersed in extensive debates in an effort to
create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith.
Their discussions constitute the bulk of what we know as the
Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly
difficult, having accumulated numerous commentaries over the
centuries since it first appeared. Recent translations have made it
somewhat more accessible to English-language readers, but textual
difficulties remain. This volume looks at tractate Menachot (grain
offerings), which is concerned mostly with grain offered at the
Temple (when it stood) to atone for various misdeeds. Joshua A.
Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of
humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain and humanize the
text for contemporary readers.
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