Despite the mitzvah’s relatively modest baseline, many people exchange dozens of food gifts with family, friends and ...

The battle between these two Venetian presses became so intense that complaints reached the revered Rabbi Moshe Isserles (the Rema) in Krakow.

His student Rava counters that Hallel is not recited on Purim, because Purim is not comparable to the Exodus. In the Exodus, ...

In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute ...

We talked with Brett Lockspeiser, Sefaria’s chief technology officer and a co-founder, about the power of new technology to reinvigorate old texts, what makes the Constitution like the Talmud ...

The Munich Talmud or The Survivors Talmud boasts vibrant title pages, capturing the historic moment of printing in postwar Germany.

It was chavruta, a method used by Talmud scholars in which pairs of students debate and ask one another questions based on ancient rabbinic texts. “When I read about chavruta, I immediately felt ...