The Book of Jewish Wisdom: The Talmud of the Well-Considered Life

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Jacob Neusner, Noam M. M. Neusner
Global Academic Publishing, 2001 - 324 strán (strany)
Out of the treasures of the religion set forth by the Torah, the religion world know as Judaism, come insights into the human condition—truths for the well-considered life—that everyone may share. Centuries of reflection upon the meaning of everyday events, the outcome of folly, and the reward of wisdom in ordinary affairs have constituted a long period of tradition. Guided by the Torah, the ancient Judaic sages wrote down what they had learned out of the past and observed for themselves, setting forth this wisdom over time.

Presented here are parts of the Judaic tradition of wisdom, concentrating on the oral part of the Torah, represented by the documents of law and scriptural exegesis, the Talmud of Babylonia and Midrash compilations, respectively. The Talmud (encompassing both law and scriptural exegesis, halakhah and aggadah) is one of the great classical writings of human civilization—enduring, influential, nourishing.

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Preface
11
How to Read This Book
40
Wise Advice of Sages to Their Children and Disciples
53
Dreams and Their Interpretation
66
Ecology and Residence
82
Generosity
95
The Golden Rule
108
Hospitality
126
Pride and Its Penalty
197
Reconciliation
204
Resurrection of the Dead
211
Riddles
217
SelfCelebration
224
Sloth
231
The Straight Path in Life
238
Supporting the Poor
247

Keeping Ones Word
141
Lust
154
When Will He Come?
165
Miracles Done by God
171
Occupations and Vocations
177
Omens
183
Politics and Politicians
189
Temper
252
Virtue
266
The Wisdom of Jerusalem and the Wisdom of Egypt
285
The Youthful Sage
298
Index
311
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Jacob Neusner was born in Hartford, Connecticut on July 28, 1932. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University in 1953. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he was ordained a Conservative rabbi and received a master's degree in Hebrew letters in 1960. He also received a doctorate in religion from Columbia University. He taught at Dartmouth College, Brown University, and the University of South Florida before joining the religion department at Bard College in 1994. He retired from there in 2014. He was a religious historian and one of the world's foremost scholars of Jewish rabbinical texts. He published more than 900 books during his lifetime including A Life of Yohanan ben Zakkai; The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism; Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah; Strangers at Home: The 'Holocaust,' Zionism, and American Judaism; Translating the Classics of Judaism: In Theory and in Practice; Why There Never Was a 'Talmud of Caesarea': Saul Lieberman's Mistakes; and Judaism: An Introduction. He wrote The Bible and Us: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together with Andrew M. Greeley and A Rabbi Talks with Jesus with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. He also edited and translated, with others, nearly the entirety of the Jewish rabbinical texts. He died on October 8, 2016 at the age of 84.

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