If all the seas were ink : a memoir /
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for daily page" of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: One day wiser
- A note on the Talmud
- I. The order of festivals
- Yoma: Alone in Jerusalem
- Sukkah/Beitzah: Temporary homes
- Rosh Hashanah: The book of life
- Taanit: Two by two
- Megillah: Who knows?
- Moed Katan: Trapdoor days
- Hagigah: Torah from the heavens
- II. The order of women
- Yevamot: Lentils in my pot
- Ketubot: I am a Jewish man
- Nedarim/Nazir: Ascetic Aesthetics
- Sotah: A still unravished bride
- Gittin: Writing divorce
- Kidushin: Toward a theory of romantic love
- III. The order of damages
- Bava Kama/Bava Metzia/Bava Batra: Suspended in a miracle
- Sanhedrin: Another lifetime
- Makkot/Shevuot: Sarah Ivreinu
- Avodah Zarah/Horayot: Frost at midnight
- IV. The order of holiness
- Zevahim/Menahot/Hullin: Holy eating
- Bechorot/Erchin/Temurah/Keritot/Meilah/Tamid/Middot/Kinnim: Poets & gatekeepers
- V. the order of purity
- Niddah: A folded notebook
- VI. The order of seeds
- Merachot: Writing about prayer is easier than praying
- VII. The order of festivals (again)
- Shabbat/Eruvin: A pregnant pause
- Pesachim: Take two
- Shekalim: Weaving the Talmudic tapestry
- Yoma: Encore