Word: talmud
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Talmud Takes Mixed View on Drinking
This quote likely refers to the line in the Talmud (Megillah 7b) that is frequently used by gleeful college students who seek to justify self-destructive excesses through appeal to religious texts...
These gleeful students would do well to keep on reading, because the Talmud text immediately continues...
...editors of the Talmud followed Rava's one-liner with this story in order to warn against the dangers of excessive alcohol use and to express strong ambivalence or even opposition to Rava's line itself. Thus, to portray Judaism as unequivocally alcohol-friendly is a distortion of the Jewish tradition...
...parliamentary election in which they're going to the polls primarily to vote for their own party, but this election is only for the post of prime minister. The rabbis may simply advise supporters of the religious parties, for example, to stay in their religious schools and study the Talmud on election day. (And reserve the right to bring down the winner if he fails to satisfy their demands.) Also, nobody yet knows how or whether the Russian immigrants or the Israeli Arabs will vote inlarge numbers. Support given or withdrawn by each of those groups has been known...