Torah Study by and for Novices—No Hebrew Required
Join us on a journey of discovery as we provide unique Torah commentary from a novice's point of view. Expand your knowledge and understanding of Jewish traditions and teachings.
The intent of this website is to help you move beyond the Bible stories that people of the Abrahamic faiths grew up with: Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, and so forth. There won't be much study of the original Torah text. Each discussion will be only a paragraph or two. Other sources will be cited if they add something interesting.
Torah and Commentary
Torah study has been called the world's longest running book club. Jews have been discussing it, interpreting it, reinterpreting, and arguing about it for at least 2,500 years. Not only do they work on understanding the Torah, but they chew over the opinions of those who came before. This is rabbinic Judaism.
The Talmud, the foundational text of rabbinic Judaism, is commonly printed as 2,711 double-sided pages. And there are actually two different versions, one from Babylonia and one from Jerusalem. And there are many other texts as well.
This process continues to this day and will likely continue till the end of time. I compare rabbinic Judaism to a coral reef: it grows by accretion, each addition building on what came before.
As they appeared, Samaritan, Christian, and Muslim scholars added their voices. Anthropologists, linguists, archaeologists, and philosophers of all stripes have also chimed in.
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