Sentences with phrase «talmudic studies»

In addition to his Talmudic studies and his eight volumes of lectures, all in Hebrew, R. Lichtenstein's thinking is represented in the two volumes called Leaves of Faith and Varieties of Jewish Experience.

Born and bred in Lithuania, where he devoted himself to Talmudic study with some of the....

This was a Hesder yeshiva, in which students combined Talmudic study with army service.

This is not the place to review his contribution and his success in propagating the analytic rigor and intensity he had learned from his father - in - law and that had previously been associated with schools that eschewed any involvement in the world outside the hall of Talmudic study.

R. Shach's home was the Talmudic study hall, not the corridors of power.

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In his scrupulous hands, the disputing voices of the Talmudic house of study, however cacophonous to the untrained ear, revealed their multiple strands of meaning and invited his students to become participants in this dialogue of the generations.

I prefer a more primitive conception of heaven, a heaven that is concrete, peopled, concatenated, hierarchical and symphonic; as lush as the pure land of the celestial Buddha Amitabha, as visceral as the Islamic garden of the houris, as engrossing to an academic like me as the rabbinic vision of heaven as a Talmudic house of study, and as immediate as the paradise that Christ promised to the good thief dying at his side.