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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Why, geometry is even deeper than Talmud," I once exclaimed to Jake "Do you think so?" he answered, indifferently "I think an interesting geometrical problem is more delicious than the best piece of meat." "Why don't you live on problems, then? Why spend money on dinners?" "Smart boy, aren't you?" "Is doing problems as sweet as being in love?" he demanded, with sheepish earnestness
Poor Sir Sedley, to whom all these matters were as unfamiliar as the theology of the Talmud, after some vain efforts to slide the conversation into easier grooves, fairly gave in, and with a compassionate smile on his handsome countenance, took refuge in his easy-chair and the contemplation of his snuff-box.
She was as pugnacious as she was charitable, and as quick to make up a quarrel as to pick one. Her husband, Michael Minsker, was a "worldly" man, with only a smattering of Talmud, and their younger children were being educated at the Russian schools.
"It's a crime for a young man like you to throw himself away on that idiotic Talmud of yours," she said, pacing up and down the room fiercely All this sounded shockingly wicked, and yet it did not shock me in the least "I have a plan," I said When she heard what I wanted to do she shook her head and frowned.
I now proceed to the supper-table of the men, where the party ate and drank to gluttonous satiety. Several rabbis were hired to chant, over the supper-table, prayers composed of portions of Scripture, and legends of the Talmud. The dinning noise of bad music, and horrible screaming, called singing, with the surfeit of the feast, laid me up for two days afterwards.
It was a comfort to think that even in hell there is no fire on the Sabbath, and no Fire-woman. When the Messiah came, perhaps they would all be forgiven. Did not the Talmud say that all Israel with the good men of all nations would have a part in the world to come? There were many fasts in the Ghetto calendar, most of them twelve hours long, but some twenty-four.
"I particularly inquired the reason why the Talmud Tora schools had no professors appointed for the Russian language and other branches of secular science and literature, this deficiency having struck me the more after having heard such powerful arguments in favour of studying these, showing that a knowledge of worldly science and literature, when combined with that of Hebrew and the observance of pure religion, was well adapted to improve an Israelite.
To the Gentiles, again, he did not hesitate to point out the good qualities of the Jews, and in an article on the Odessa Talmud Torah he held up the institution as a model for the public elementary schools. He admired especially the enthusiasm with which Jewish youths devoted themselves to the acquisition of knowledge.
According to the Talmud there were four hundred and eighty synagogues each with a Bet Sefer for teaching the written law and a Bet Talmud for the study of the oral law. From his silence we may infer that he did not study Greek at this period, and Aramaic was his natural tongue.
He could satisfy his wants from his own store. There was no need for him to knock at strange doors, even though he had thereby profited. The consequences of this attitude, positive as well as negative consequences, asserted themselves in the further course of Jewish history. With the close of the Talmud, at the beginning of the sixth century, the feverish intellectual activity abated.
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