Eight minutes on what the Talmud is for, from the man who spent his life opening it.
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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.
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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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