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June 30, 2022
The Talmud as a Medical Textbook
The sages downplay the role of God and sin in human illness and health.
One of the factors that makes the Babylonian Talmud an immensely rich text—and a bewildering one to the uninitiated—is the expansiveness of its reach. In their attempt to interpret the Bible and Mishnah and to clarify Jewish law, the talmudic sages leave absolutely no subject untouched. Thus it includes numerous folk remedies and pieces of medical advice, ranging from the baldly supernatural to the seemingly practical. Jason Mokhtarian, a scholar of talmudic medicine, discusses the subject in an interview with Kate Blackwood.
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The Talmud as a Medical Textbook
The sages downplay the role of God and sin in human illness and health.