This week, tens of thousands of Jews across North America and the world will open their bright new textbooks and embark on a crash course to decode the Talmud.
It’s called Decoding the Talmud and it’s JLI’s latest flagship course, developed over the past two years.
JLI dedicated this new groundbreaking course to their dear friends and partners, R’ Meyer and Leah Eichler, in gratitude and appreciation for their partnership to bring Torah study to hundreds of Jewish communities worldwide
It was authored by Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin, shliach in New Orleans, Louisiana, with the input of JLI’s curriculum development team, Rabbi Mordechai Dinerman, Rabbi Shmuel Super and Rabbi Yanki Tauber.
Decoding the Talmud introduces students to the story behind Torah shebaal peh, the Mishnah, the Gemara, and many of the major meforshim. But it’s no history class.
Students learn a sugya for themselves. They see how the Gemara thinks, how it’s organized, and why it unpacks oceans from the Mishnah’s terse words. And they meet the major tana’im and amora’im whose teachings populate the Talmudic page.
The Jewish people have long sensed that Talmud study holds the key to their survival. Their enemies sensed it, too. The Talmud has been slandered, banned, and burned, and antisemites still misconstrue the Talmud today. Now, tens of thousands of Jews worldwide are rediscovering this treasured piece of their heritage for themselves.
To enroll in a local class, visit myJLI.com
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