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NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:16:52 -0600
From: Gunner Asch <gunnerasch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.e-books
Subject: Re: To the imbeciles who criticised me for wanting a copy of the Talmud, check the link below
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:16:55 -0800
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:52:51 -0600, Huck Finn <huck@nowhere.com>
wrote:
>A full English translation of the Talmud can be found at
>http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm.
>
>This site has the following interesting comment:
>
>A search for Talmud at Google will turn up hundreds of thousands of hits, a
>depressing number of which are to anti-Semitic sites. However, to our knowledge
>this is the first extensive English translation of the Talmud to be posted on
>the Internet. The Talmud is a vast collection of Jewish laws and traditions.
>Despite the dry subject matter the Talmud makes interesting reading because it
>is infused with vigorous intellectual debate, humor and deep wisdom. As the
>saying goes, 'you don't have to be Jewish' to appreciate this text. If you put
>in the hard work required to read the Talmud, your mind will get a world-class
>workout. The process of studying the Talmud has been compared with the practice
>of Zen Buddhist Koan meditation, and for good reason.
>
> Huck
Pretty good link and site. Thanks!!
Gunner
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child,
miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied,
demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.
Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
PJ O'Rourke
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