How to Use the Talmud in a Sentence

the Talmud

noun
  • Candace Owens has blamed the Talmud for quite a lot of the world’s problems.
    — Steven Burg, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Are permitted to intuit in the Talmud of our hearts.
    — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • In the Talmud, however, life after age twenty is carved up into decade-long intervals.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • According to the Talmud, leaving money or material goods behind, whether to heirs or anyone else, is a mistake for two reasons.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
  • As the Talmud tells it, when the Romans first laid siege to Jerusalem and the Second Temple, the walled city had supplies to withstand the blockade for years to come.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Between studying the Talmud and running from the Cossacks, the Jewish children escaping to America had not had much time for play.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The earliest version of this story appears in the Talmud – the main collection of rabbinic laws and commentary – some 500 years after the story occurred.
    — Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
  • According to the Talmud, a central collection of rabbinic teachings on Jewish law and theology, three divine books are opened on Rosh Hashana.
    — Sarah Pessin, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In Jewish tradition, the Talmud makes numerous references to pickled vegetables, particularly turnips, which symbolize abundance and endurance.
    — Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
  • For 16 minutes, Kirk deconstructed these and other conspiracy theories, patiently demystifying complex aspects of Judaism such as the Talmud and the biblical Noahide Laws before attempting to explain his fundamental disagreement.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026

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