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December 20, 2019

What Do the Talmud and the Internet Have in Common? More, and Less, Than One Might Think

When studying the Talmud, one always returns to the page.

The sprawling nature of the Talmud, where discussion of one topic leads seamlessly to another, sometimes with only the loosest of connections, has invited comparison with the Internet, where a reader can follow one link after another to roam farther and farther afield from the subject with which he or she began. But the comparison only goes so far, writes Gil Student:

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