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The Scholarly Debates of the Talmud

Tens of thousands of people around the world study the Talmud, a seemingly endless Aramaic encyclopedia packed with hard-to-read and even harder-to-understand text. But what exactly is this millenia-old mashup of rabbinic commentaries and Jewish legalese? Where did it come from and what does it contain that’s worth countless hours of study and scholarly debates?

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