After 1,500 Years, an Index to the Talmud’s Labyrinths, With Roots in the Bronx

“The Talmud was written in exile, and it was the thread that kept Jews together,” he said. “It had no punctuation, no paragraphs. It was a book that was to be transmitted orally from father to son.”

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