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EST 1917

  The Talmud is a 20-volume compendium of Jewish laws and stories. If you were to read the entire Talmud at the relatively fast rate of one page a day–all 2,700 pages of it–it would take nearly eight years to finish it. Or you could just re-interpret it into a series of rhyming poems. A […]

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Rabbi Judah ibn Tibbon offered the following advice: “Make books your companions; let bookcases and shelves be your pleasure gardens and orchards.” He said this in 13th century Provence, but this adage has been taken to heart for ages. Jews love books. The new blog BookshelfPorn shares our obsession. The site hosts hundreds of photos of lavish, unusual, and gravity-defying […]

In Judaism, no matter how badly we behave, we can always get a second (or third, or fourth) chance. For example, one Talmudic legend describes a man named Eleazar ben Durdia, who decided to visit every prostitute in the world. One time, he crossed seven rivers to hire a prostitute with a sterling reputation. During their proceedings, […]

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