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More than any other book, the Talmud has preserved us as a people, but because studying it is so difficult, teaching it is a specific art. The “sink or swim” method employed by many yeshivas today has dangerous consequences, but at the same time, because of translations and the Daf HaYomi, the Talmud has never been so accessible to so many. Rabbi Wein assesses the different ways of teaching Talmud and highlighting its history, scope, and insights into human nature.

• “teaching to the top” and the at-risk problem
• why the Babylonian yeshivas thrived
• Rav, Abaye, and the other towering sages
• Talmud study in Eastern Europe
• the Daf Yomi revolution