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Sunday, August 19 • 9:00am - 10:00am
Unlocking the Talmudic page – understanding the Jewish hypertext

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Location: R3

The Babylonian Talmud is a complex text representing centuries of Jewish life and thought. The Talmudic page represents a distillation of Jewish knowledge that was assembled over a millennium. How can we unlock the wisdom of the past and better understand this enigmatic text? This session will be dedicated to the evolution of the Talmud from its origins as oral knowledge to the hyper text as we know today.

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Adi Cohen

Rabbi Adi Cohen is the Rabbi of Temple Sinai, the Wellington Progressive Jewish Congregation. He was previously the Rabbi of Brit Olam, a Progressive Jewish congregation in Kiryat On, Israel. He has also taught law and Jewish ethics at Metro West High School in Ra'anana, and worked... Read More →


Sunday August 19, 2012 9:00am - 10:00am NZST
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