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...Judaism" but argues that Jewish law "was never intended to be frozen" and "must grow to meet new situations." In fact, as Rabbi Klein points out, Halakah has been significantly modified over the centuries, by such sages as Maimonides and Joseph Karo, in order to adapt the written Talmud to the requirements of everyday life. The Conservative branch of Judaism considers Halakah of divine origin but believes in adapting it to the times by a less restrictive interpretation of custom. The Reform Jews go considerably farther, believe that it is the spirit rather than the letter of the law that...
...finest post-Beethoven composers for piano. He was known as the Berlioz of the piano. His music reflected none of the warm rhapsodical reveries of Chopin and Liszt but, rather, foreshadowed Mahler and Bruckner. A moody, eccentric loner, Alkan retired from public life at 42 to study the Talmud, teach, and compose. One of the pieces he composed, curiously enough, was a funeral march for a parakeet...
Alkan died at the age of 74, when, as he reached for a volume of his beloved Talmud, the massive bookcase tipped over and crushed him to death...
Blasphemy & Burden. Medieval Christians considered the Talmud blasphemous, and copies of it were publicly burned by church authorities as late as 1599. Even Jews have revolted against the burden of its teaching. The 8th century Karaites rejected the authority of the Talmud for the simplicity of the Bible message alone. Today Reform Jews tend to regard it as a record of past wisdom rather than as an essential of their faith...
...Orthodox and Conservative Jews, a Judaism without the Talmud is as unthinkable as the U.S. without the Constitution. The United Synagogue hopes that its translation will stimulate a new generation of Jews to rediscover the wonders and spiritual riches of historic Judaism's attempt to comprehend the divine imperative. As the Talmud itself says: "In the hour of death, God shows to those who study the Law the reward they will receive...