How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book

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For numerous centuries, the Talmud–an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition–has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and ra

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  • Author: Leibovitz, Liel
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Page Count: 272
  • Publish Date: January 01, 1970
  • ISBN10: 1324020822
  • Language: English
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For numerous centuries, the Talmud–an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition–has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical repartee, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages long. As Liel Leibovitz enthusiastically explores the Talmud, what has sometimes been misunderstood as a dusty and arcane volume becomes humanity’s first self-help book. How the Talmud Can Change Your Life contains sage advice on an unparalleled scope of topics, which includes communicating with your partner, dealing with grief, and being a friend.

Leibovitz guides readers through the sprawling text with all its humor, rich insights, compulsively readable stories, and multilayered conversations. Contemporary discussions framed by Talmudic philosophy and psychology draw on subjects ranging from Weight Watchers and the Dewey decimal system to the lives of Billie Holiday and C. S. Lewis. Chapters focus on fundamental human experiences–the mind-body problem, the power of community, the challenges of love–to illuminate how the Talmud speaks to our daily existence. As Leibovitz explores some of life’s greatest questions, he also delivers a concise history of the Talmud itself, explaining the process of its lengthy compilation and organization.

With infectious passion and candor, Leibovitz brilliantly displays how the Talmud’s wisdom reverberates for the modern age and how it can, indeed, change your life.

Author: Liel Leibovitz
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.33w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781324020820
Language: English

Author

Leibovitz, Liel

Binding

ISBN10

1324020822

ISBN13

9781324020820

Page Count

272

Published Date

45209

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