Episode 149 (Numbers 24:15-25:15)
40 Minutes In The Old Testament
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The Babylonian Talmud: The Center of Jewish Scholarship
The Israelites were exiled to Babylon in 586 BC and most of them stayed there. For the longest time, Babylon was the center of Jewish scholarship. The Talmud is like the religious text for the Jews. It came out of this particular place where the Jews had lived for centuries.
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