Reading The Talmud

"The Jewish world has seen a phenomenal renaissance in Talmudic study in recent decades, yet many serious adult students continue to struggle at a basic level because they did not have the benefit of a traditional Jewish childhood education. Despite great levels of motivation and personal self-sacrifice, such students are forced to choose between reading English translations of the Talmud, or struggling to look every other word in an Aramaic-English dictionary. <font color="red"><i>Reading The Talmud</i></font> represents the first English-language textbook of Talmud, designed precisely for the contemporary ba'al teshuvah. Incorporating traditional Yeshivah-style learning techniques with modern methods of language study, this textbook is designed to make it possible for students "to make a breakthrough - which will lead them to self-sufficent competence" (Rabbi Mendel Weinbach, Rosh Yeshiva, Ohr Somayach). <br><br><br><center><font size="+1" color="red"><u>About the Author</u></font><br><br>Dr. Henry (Hillel) Abramson holds a PhD in Jewish History and is Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services at Touro College South in Miami Beach. Well-known for his studies of Eastern European Jewry, he began to design this method of teaching adult students while teaching at Cornell University, and refined it for over a decade while holding visiting and doctoral appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Hebrew University. Besides working with college students new to Judaism, Dr. Abramson also gave <i>shiurim</i> using this method to men with children in Yeshiva middle school, affording them the tools to continue learning with their sons, progressing together in Gemara study"