Spice Box | “What Am I,” asks Hamm, “Chopped liver?”

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Book Review | Studying Talmud with Beruriah

When the ancient rabbis had a question about the Torah—an important detail that seemed to be missing, an inconsistency between two passages, even a redundant word or verse—they would often solve the problem by writing a midrash, or story, filling in the missing piece or reconciling the seeming contradiction.

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