Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Seven-And-A-Half-Year Journey Through the Talmud

by Adam Kirsch

Book Overview

A literary critic's journey through the Talmud.

Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi--a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for 2,711 days, or about seven and a half years--Adam Kirsch approached Tablet magazine to write a weekly column about his own Daf Yomi experience. An avowedly secular Jew, Kirsch did not have a religious source for his interest in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684580676
• ISBN13: 9781684580675
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"