Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Seven-And-A-Half-Year Journey Through the Talmud Kirsch Adam
Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Seven-And-A-Half-Year Journey Through the Talmud Kirsch Adam A literary critic's journey through the Talmud.Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi--a study program…
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Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Seven-And-A-Half-Year Journey Through the Talmud Kirsch Adam
A literary critic's journey through the Talmud.Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi--a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for 2,711 days, or about seven and a half years--Adam Kirsch approached Tablet magazine to write a weekly column about his own Daf Yomi experience. This book is perfect for readers who are in a similar position. An avowedly secular Jew, Kirsch did not have a religious source for his interest in the Talmud; rather, as a student of Jewish literature and history, he came to realize that he couldn't fully explore these subjects without some knowledge of the Talmud.
As a critic and journalist Kirsch has experience in Most people have little sense of what the Talmud actually is--how the text moves, its preoccupations and insights, and its moments of strangeness and profundity.