How to Use Talmud in a Sentence

Talmud

noun
  • Menachem attended local yeshivas and, after high school, spent four years in advanced Talmud study.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 2024-01-19
  • Only a minority of haredi men are currently employed (the rest study Talmud full time).
    — Jeffrey Goldberg, Foreign Affairs, 2013-06-11
  • Both the Jewish Talmud and the Quran teach a powerful ethical lesson.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-06-20
  • Noah is constantly making sermons or toasts cribbed from Talmud for Netflix Subscribers.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The institutions where women can learn Talmud and rabbinic law span the Orthodox landscape.
    — Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Since then, the number of Orthodox institutions that offer advanced Talmud study for women has grown significantly.
    — Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • He was born in 1923 into a strictly observant Jewish family in Pittsburgh and was expected to become a Rabbi like his father, a Talmud scholar.
    — Christian House, CNN, 2024-02-22
  • From Torah to Talmud Formed in the 19th century, Orthodox Judaism is oriented around a strict observance of Jewish law and commitment to traditional gender roles.
    — Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • What To Know The Lawsuit A yeshiva is a Jewish religious school, typically for boys, that focuses on intensive study of sacred texts such as the Torah and Talmud, with varying amounts of general secular education depending on the community.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025

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