In our generation, more and more Jews are studying Talmud. Beginners use editions that translate and explain the text. These editions contribute greatly to comprehension of content, but do not advance independent learning capability. More and more learners, but fewer and fewer who really comprehend what makes the Talmud what it is! This is because many Talmud learners mistakenly see the Talmud as a Western, linear text, and ignore the literary and historical complexities of the sugyot. Jewish tradition includes defined skills for deeper understanding of Talmud! Rishonim and Acharonim taught keys for successful Talmud study – we need to learn to use them to attain efficient and accurate independent Talmud study!

The Society for the Advancement of Torah Sheb’al Peh invites you to take part in the development of this breakthrough website for Talmud study, which provides a digital edition of the Bavli Talmud with separation of the three main strata of the Talmud – Tannaim, Amoraim and Shakla V’Tarya. This presentation of the Talmud enables systematic, accurate comprehension and guides the learner to independent learning capability. Ongoing development of the site will include the world’s first edition of Torat Tannaim, and sugyot from the Yerushalmi parallel to the sugyot of the Bavli. This remarkable website is the fruit of forty years of research and teaching of Talmud by Rabbi Dr. Pinchas Hayman, based on manifold sources of the Rishonim and Acharonim, guided by the research methods developed in the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University, especially by Rav Professor Mayer Simchah Feldblum, after whom the site is named – “Talmud Or Meir.”