Louis Finkelstein
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Louis Finkelstein was a Talmud scholar, an expert in Jewish law, and a leader of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Conservative Judaism.
Louis Finkelstein (left) with Pinchas Hacohen Peli, New York, 1969
Talmud
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The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism, and second in authority only to the Hebrew Bible, the first five books of which form the Torah along with the texts in Nevi'im and Ketuvim. It is a
Louis Finkelstein
…Louis Finkelstein (June 14, 1895, in Cincinnati, Ohio – November 29, 1991) was a Talmud scholar, an expert in Jewish law, and a leader of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) and Conservative Judaism. Louis (Eliezer) Finkelstein…
The Talmud on display in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland brings together parts from the first two Talmud prints by Daniel Bomberg and Ambrosius Froben.
A page of a medieval Jerusalem Talmud manuscript, from the Cairo Geniza
A full set of the Babylonian Talmud
The Schottenstein Babylonian Talmud in a synagogue in Raanana, Israel