Talmud
noun
Tal·mud
ˈtäl-ˌmu̇d 
ˈtal-məd
ˈtal-məd
: the authoritative body of Jewish tradition comprising the Mishnah and Gemara
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But the leaders of the two schools, Yeshiva Talmud Torah of Kasho and Yeshiva Bnei Shimon Yisroel of Sopron, which are housed in three locations in Williamsburg, refused even to meet with education officials to work on an improvement plan.
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Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The schools are two locations of Yeshiva Bnei Shimon Yisroel of Sopron, and Talmud Torah of Kasho, the Education Department confirmed.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
One group met over breakfast each morning to study a page of Talmud.
—Yonat Shimron, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025
As the Book of Life and Death is open, one wraps in white, believing and knowing the outcome will be good (Jerusalem Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 1:3).
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2024
Only a minority of haredi men are currently employed (the rest study Talmud full time).
—Jeffrey Goldberg, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
The idea was that the Jewish community, decimated by the Holocaust, could revive the study of Torah and Talmud, the rabbinical discussion of Jewish law.
—Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
Both the Jewish Talmud and the Quran teach a powerful ethical lesson.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2024
He was born in 1923 into a strictly observant Jewish family in Pittsburgh and was expected to become a Rabbi like his father, a Talmud scholar.
—Christian House, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
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Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The schools are two locations of Yeshiva Bnei Shimon Yisroel of Sopron, and Talmud Torah of Kasho, the Education Department confirmed.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
One group met over breakfast each morning to study a page of Talmud.
—Yonat Shimron, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025
As the Book of Life and Death is open, one wraps in white, believing and knowing the outcome will be good (Jerusalem Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 1:3).
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2024
Only a minority of haredi men are currently employed (the rest study Talmud full time).
—Jeffrey Goldberg, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
The idea was that the Jewish community, decimated by the Holocaust, could revive the study of Torah and Talmud, the rabbinical discussion of Jewish law.
—Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
Both the Jewish Talmud and the Quran teach a powerful ethical lesson.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2024
He was born in 1923 into a strictly observant Jewish family in Pittsburgh and was expected to become a Rabbi like his father, a Talmud scholar.
—Christian House, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
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