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Talmud Study Resources

This will hopefully be an ever growing list. If you have any Talmud study resources you like (online or in print), please send them to me and I’ll update accordingly!

The most important resource for study is community, so if you have a local synagogue, check if they have study group

Free Online Resources

Sefaria Mishnah — reading the Mishnah first can make the Gemara easier

Sefaria Talmud — the go-to free online translation. I believe it uses the Koren translation

Daf Yomi — daily image of the day’s daf with audio of it being read (not translated as far I can tell)

New addition! Hadran Courses — Absolutely top notch courses to give you the tools to study Talmud. Cannot recommend this enough.

Books

Your local Shul’s library probably has a copy of these or similar books! They are far from the only books on these topics

Reference Guide to the Talmud by Rabbi Steinsaltz

I love this book. It has the answers for almost every question a beginner could ask, from how a page of Talmud is laid out to the basics of Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic

The Practical Talmud Dictionary by Yitzhak Frank

Not a comprehensive dictionary of Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic, but it has a lot and is simple to use

Grammar for Gemara & Targum Onkelos: An Introduction to Aramaic by Yitzhak Frank

Sister text to The Practical Talmud Dictionary. Good for beginners with at least some knowledge of Hebrew

Everyman’s Talmud by Abraham Cohen

Basic overview of topics covered in the Talmud. Very dense

The Essential Talmud by Rabbi Steinsaltz

More digestible than Cohen’s book, but not as comprehensive

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BEIT DIN TOMORROW :D

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it really sucks how the jumblr tag is genuinely unusable rn due to SOME PEOPLE using it to post praise/support for the killer of the two israel embassy workers and/or general antisemetism... i wish i knew of a better, more private tag. but alas :/

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I read a piece today that described the tradition of Judaism as one of Memory.

It is not just a religion or an ethnicity. it has been built up from the very beginning as a tribe that struggled through the desert to learn how to find their way through life.

A group of people that saw the rise and fall of small and large empires and tribes. They formed traditions that helped them survive. That kept them from assimilation.

And when they were scattered across the globe, their memory never faded.

From Ashkenazi to Sephardic, to Mizrahi to Ethiopian, they not only passed on the survival and tradition of their current way of life, but they passed on tradition from the very beginning.

We remember things as if they happened yesterday. We still mourn the fall of the temple as if we were on that long trek into Babylon. We still remember the bitterness of being slaves in Egypt. Is it any wonder that the Shoah still feels like it was not even one generation away?

Memory as a culture is such a unique and amazing thing. It brings everyone together and puts us all there at each moment.

As someone with memory issues and time problems, being able to count my weeks by the Sabbath has helped me stay grounded. Being able to say "I was at Sinnai" or "We left Egypt" has helped me to put myself into the tradition and understand this amazing tribe.

Every step of the way, we were all there and because of this, we remember.

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beit din this week, mikveh next week??????? hello???????

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my rabbi said that im ahead of where i should be & also im officially converting sometime in the next month?? hello???

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it was a great concert though and i got to talk about my bf to my friends who have half adopted me

got home from a concert (went with most of the synagogue) and there is a swastika tagged on a dumpster outside of my dorm yippee

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got home from a concert (went with most of the synagogue) and there is a swastika tagged on a dumpster outside of my dorm yippee

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also i hand sewed a kippah last night for myself and i like it a lot, i need to make more in fun colors and patterns (with a sewing machine, that took me 2 hours)

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I think I'm (almost) scheduled for conversion this summer (?) it doesn't feel real, it feels like I should have done a lot more work than i actually did to get to this point.

Like what do you mean just showing up to services pretty much every other week and making friends and finishing a class is enough to convert??? it feels like i should have spent more time studying and learning etc

also i still have to see if the trip would be before i leave for work over the summer (and if it was that would be really silly because my first 2 months as a jew would be spent in a completely new and unfamiliar environment)

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just wore a kippah at the synagogue for the first time today :D big day for me (i told myself i wouldn't until i was more sure) AND i got to take the challah home again. i love it here

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reading jewish texts on the idea of g-d is so refreshing after studing in this christianity and islam class. like the arguments people are making make logical sense but i don't feel like they're Right. and then i go read chabad dot org and all is right with the world. thank you chabad dot org for giving me Light in these times

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but also if i missed going to shul tonight i wouldnt forgive myself bc theres going to be new traditional music and i want to hear it

watched indecent for class and i dont think im the same person anymore

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like its my first experience with the holocaust in literature since learning much of anything about judiasm. and Hooo Boy did it hit me hard. i just want to lay down in a warm place for a while

watched indecent for class and i dont think im the same person anymore

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watched indecent for class and i dont think im the same person anymore

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ignoring my place in the Forum Order for this class because i NEED to be annoying about judiasm on main and this is my only chance