Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud
by
Joshua A. Fogel
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries immersed in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their discussions constitute the bulk...