8 min
Talk
The Talmud as an Instruction Book
Eight minutes on what the Talmud is for, from the man who spent his life opening it.
About the teacher
Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
Israeli rabbi, teacher and translator (1937–2020) who spent forty-five years putting the whole Babylonian Talmud into modern Hebrew with a running commentary, and then into English, French, Russian and Spanish. A Chabad Hasid and a writer on Jewish mysticism, he worked above all to make a closed text open to anyone willing to read it.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
18 min
Interview
Unvarnished Straight Talk
Short, dry answers to large questions, in the manner he was known for.
28 min
Talk
At Yale
A talk to students at Yale in March 2016, four years before his death.
38 min
Documentary
Rabbi in Fez
A documentary following him to Morocco, among the remains of a Jewish world that was.
Path
The wider context.
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Concealment & the hidden light
Kabbalah
The Jewish mystical tradition centred on hidden dimensions of scripture and the nature of the divine, often explored through symbolic systems such as the Tree of Life.
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