In this class the Talmud tells tragic tales of sexual exploitation and slavery. Chilling incidents of psychosomatic torture, emotional trauma, total loss of dignity and related forms of sexual abuse are conveyed. The concluding narrative illustrates a sin of grave immorality coupled with...
Category - Intermediate Talmud: Stories of Tragic Destruction
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Children of Exile: Traumatized, Tortured, Murdered
This Talmudic tapestry of testimony to the brutal murder and psychological trauma and torture inflicted upon young Jewish children may be the...
Continuing our investigation into the verse, “Because for your sake we are killed all the time,” which literally speaks about martyrdom out of...
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Is Choosing Death Ever Kosher?
This class continues with further analysis of the meaning behind “the voice of Jacob vs. the hands of Esau”. Then a shocking story about a ship...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Bloodbath
The Talmud relates shocking stories about some of the world’s worst anti-Semites and mass murderers who went on to become righteous converts! The...
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Running Rivers of Boiling Blood
This class conveys chilling details of the Roman massacre that ensued upon the defeat of the stronghold Judean city Beitar, causing the countryside...
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One of Judea’s Vanished Villages
Inspiring remarkable Talmudic tales about Kfar Sachnaya; a righteous, merry municipality that flourished in Eretz Yisrael after the tragic...
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On Account of a ‘Rooster and Hen’
This Gemara class takes you back in time to the beginning of the common era, as we revisit the narratives and events that ultimately caused the...