This week’s ‘Touring the Talmud’ is dedicated in honour of Mr David Weitzman who has contributed immensely to the development and production of these essays over the last several months.

Please click HERE to read a printable version. Touring the Talmud Aboda Zara 47-54 We continue in the fourth chapter of Aboda Zara, we continue discussing prohibited objects of idol worship. We

Please click HERE to read a printable version.   The Talmud turns its focus from relationships with idolators and focuses now on the very objects and paraphernalia of idol worship. We are not

Please click HERE to read a printable version. We continue our discussions of interaction with gentiles and focus on our buying and sharing of food with them and the implications on relationship and

Touring the Talmud: Aboda Zara 19-25 Paganism is seen as the base mode of humanity in the Talmud. Pagans and idolators are not welcomed into the conscious, moral, human society

Touring the Talmud: Aboda Zara 12-18  We continue to examine the nature of idol worship and its place in humanity. We come to find that it has a peculiar connection

This week we begin the tractate of Aboda Zara — ‘Foreign Worship’. The premise is simple: it deals with the laws and issues revolving around worshipping anything other than the

Please click HERE to read a printable version. Touring the Talmud: Shebu’ot 44-49 (Shabbat Bo)  In our discussions on the concepts raised in the tractate of Shebu’ot we have addressed several aspects of social interaction

Please click HERE to read a printable version. Touring the Talmud: Shebu’ot 38-44 (Shabbat Va’era)  “Relatively Speaking” The Talmud’s discussions of oaths continues to examine the oaths administered by judges in a Jewish

Please click here to read a printable version. Please click here to hear an audio version. Touring the Talmud (Shabbat Shemot) Shebu’ot 30-38 The fourth chapter of our discussions regarding oaths, deals with those taken by