Teaching Talmud Resources
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Talmud Teaching Tools
Habits of Mind for Gemara by Tzvi Pittinsky
Hadrat Melech: Biographical Notes – Rabbanim of the Period of the Rishonim and Achronim with Indexes by Shlmo Pereira
Talmud Bavli Frequency Word List by Tzvika Kanarek
Talmud Lesson Plans & Activity Descriptions
A Mock Beit Din: An Interactive Assessment for Sugyot in Nezikin by Ira S. Kosowsky
An Introduction to Talmud Study: A Webquest Integrating the Daf Layout with the Historical Development of the Talmud by Naphtali Hoff
Gambling and Halakha (Sanhedrin 24b) by Aharon Frazer
Researching the Development of Torah She Be’al Peh by Zvi Grumet
Talmud Articles and Research
Gemara Instruction in Yeshiva High Schools by R. Aharon Lichtenstein
Hermeneutics and Values: Issues in Improving Contemporary Talmud Teaching by Avraham Walfish
Implications of Academic Approaches to the Study of the Babylonian Talmud for the Beliefs and Religious Attitudes of the Student by Pinchas Hayman
Issues in Talmud Curricular Development by Moshe J. Yeres
Learning Talmud from Within: An Interview with Menahem Kahane
Methodology and Method in the Teaching of Tannaitic Literature by Pinchas Hayman
Motivational Issues in the Study of Gemara Among American High School Senior Boys by Aaron S. Ross
On the Teaching of Talmud: Toward a Methodological Basis for a Curriculum in Oral-Tradition Studies by Pinchas Hayman
Orality and Textuality: A Historical Perspective by Zvi Grumet
“So What?!”: Talmud Study Through Values Analysis by Scot A. Berman
Talmud Now by Moshe Meir, Channa Amit and Kalman Neuman (trans. by Rachel Schloss)
Teaching from Within, Teaching from Without: The Problem of Unshared Assumptions in the High School Gemara Class by Eliezer Diamond
Teaching Talmud with Cognitive Maps in the Religious Public School by Tzvika Kanarek
The Obligation of Talmud on Women According to Maimonides by Warren Zev Harvey
Talmud Multimedia
An Interview with R. Haim Perlmutter by Mark Smilowitz
Talmud Listservs
Talmud Websites & External Tools
Alphabetical Index of Talmudic Topics (English) by WebShas
Dictionary of Targumim, Talmud and Midrashic Literature by Marcus Jastrow
English Translation of Babylonian Talmud by Soncino (PDFs)
Ma’agar Sifrut Kodesh (Talmud Bavli) by Snunit K12 (can search, copy/cut, etc.)
Rabbinic Literature Genre Map by Jeffrey Spitzer for Gann Academy
Talmud Bavli by Mechon Mamre (can search, copy/cut, etc.)
Talmud Bavli by HebrewBooks.org (PDF of original format & text – can search, copy/cut, etc.)
Talmud Image Map by Eliezer Segal
Rabbi Pittinsky’s 9T2 Gemara Page by Tzvi Pittinsky