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THE TALMUD AS ICON Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
SYMBOLICS OF THE PARIS DISPUTATION 1240
Essential Enhanced
Emblematic
Essential• Composed by rabbis who
reinvent Judaism between 70-
750 CE
• Reads like a conversation
• Many ideas
• Usurpation of God’s authority
• Pluralism
• Unresolved Debates
• Talmud as center of
elite ideological
conversations
• Many different
literatures of
reception (Responsa,
codes, commentaries)
Enhanced
Since at least the 13th century the
Talmud has functioned as a symbol
of Judaism, Jewishness and Jews
Emblematic
Scroll
Codex
1520-1523 Bomberg Talmud
New
Commentary
• 1880s
Romm Vilna
edition
Steinsaltz
Hebrew
Edition
• Artscroll
Schottenstein
Talmud
DAF YOMI
Program of studying a page of Talmud a day
Finish the Talmud every 7.5 years
Recent parties to celebrate have been held in arenas
Metlife Stadium,
New Jersey 2012
Daf Yomi for Kids!
Nehama Golan
“You Shall Walk in Good Ways”