Talmud Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Talmud.
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“Pirkei Avot”
“Jesus in the Talmud”
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“Talmudic views on marriage”
“Talmudic views on gentiles”
“Wikipedia: Talmud”
“Wiktionary: Talmud”
“Wikiquote: Talmudic views on gentiles
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“A person who understands the law but who is far from the love of God is like a bank official who has the keys for the inside of the building but not the key for the front door.”
“The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.”
“Pertaining to the "Daf Yomi" program:
• a general resource for Daf Yomi
• calendar for this Daf Yomi cycle”
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“Without the Talmud, we would not be able to understand passages in the Bible. ... God has handed this authority to the sages and tradition is a necessity as well as scripture. ... Anyone who does not study the Talmud cannot understand Scripture.”
“Wikiquote: Pikuach nefesh
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“Jews don't read the Bible literally. We read it through the lens of generations of interpretations and acknowledge the evolution of human understanding of God. The Talmudic image of God is vastly different from the image of God presented in the Bible.”
“Wikiquote: Talmudic views on justice
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“General
• "A Page from the Babylonian Talmud" image map from Prof. Eliezer Segal
• A survey of rabbinic literature on the Ohr Somayach website
• point by point summary and discussion by daf”
“Wikiquote: Jesus in the Talmud
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• Meaning: The old lack enthusiasm, the young lack shrewdness.
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• Meaning: Youth is a light burden, old age a heavy one.
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“I had never seen the Talmud. It was very interesting. It's got big pages, and in a little square in the corner of the page is the original Talmud, and then in a sort of L-shaped margin, all around this square, are commentaries written by different people. The Talmud has evolved, and everything has been discussed again and again, all very carefully, in a medieval kind of reasoning. ... The Talmud is a wonderful book, a great, big potpourri of things: trivial questions, and difficult questions—for example, problems of teachers, and how to teach—and then some trivia again, and so on.”
“Talmud texts
• Talmud (Sefaria.org)
• Mishna (Hebrew)
• Tosefta (Hebrew)
• Talmud Yerushalmi (Hebrew)
• Talmud Bavli (Hebrew)
• Rodkinson English translation (1903, only Moed and Nashim).
• Images of each page of the Babylonian Talmud (English framework with Hebrew text images)”