Talmud Pages
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In this edition of the Contemporary Talmud Page, we begin with an affirmation of Kaplan that “Torah is lifelong moral education.” But is this always true? How might the idea of shlemut (spiritual wholeness), the inward Jewish peoplehood character of tikkun olam, and an appreciation of Shabbat challenge Kaplan’s own assertion that we must always be engaged…
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Mishnah by Dr. Jeffrey Schein, Gemara by Dr. Jon A. Levisohn, Dr. Miriam Heller Stern, and Dr. Arthur Green. NEW!! Tosafot (additional commentaries) by Rabbi Lily Solochek and Dr. Miriam Heller Stern.
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Kaplan was fond of the phrase a “Copernican Revolution” and used it in several different contexts. When one’s understanding of Judaism shifts from that of a religion to a culture or religious civilization, does one’s understanding of who is an educated Jew correspondingly shift? If so, how? From Dr. Jon A. Levisohn A Kaplanian Vision…
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Mishnah by Dr. Jeffrey Schein, Gemara by Earl Schwartz, Rabbi Sid Schwarz, and Rabbi Gail Shuster Bouskila. NEW!! Tosafot (additional commentaries) by Rabbi William Plevan and Dr. Mel Scult
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Mishnah by Mordecai Kaplan. Gemara by Rabbi Michael M. Cohen, Rabbi Barbara Penzner, Rabbi Gail Shuster-Bouskila, Dr. Nadav S. Berman.
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Talmud (study) consists of the Mishnah (original text or law) and Gemara, completion of the text. We emphasize the term Talmud (study) because it indicates that Mishnah and Gemara are part of a larger process of expansion of meaning that is fostered by sacred argument. In this selection, Mordechai Kaplan provides the original Mishnah and…
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Mishnah by Mordecai Kaplan. Gemara by Rabbi Adina Allen, Elizheva Hurvich, Joanne Fink.
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In this article Dr. Eric Caplan, the Vice-President and Academic Advisor of the Kaplan Center, explore the way in which we might “draw out” of an ancient text a value that can function for us as it did for our ancestors even if the language is changed. Mordecai Kaplan had called this process revaluation. Kaplan…
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In this article Dr. Eric Caplan, the Vice-President and Academic Advisor of the Kaplan Center, explore the way in which we might “draw out” of an ancient text a value that can function for us as it did for our ancestors even if the language is changed. Mordecai Kaplan had called this process revaluation. Kaplan…