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January 13, 2020

Can Judaism Thrive If Cut Off from Its Talmudic Roots?

Thoughts on daily Talmud study not conducted “in the spirit of a believer.”

When the literary critic Adam Kirsch began the regimen of daily Talmud study known as daf yomi (“daily page”) seven-and-a-half years ago, he did not do so in “the spirit of a believer,” and he concluded it earlier this month still a confirmed secular Jew. Reflecting on the experience—very different, as he notes, from that of the thousands of Jews around the world who concluded the Talmud along with him—he ponders its larger significance:

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