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Why Should an Atheist Care About Torah? — Shabtai.tv

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Every Monday evening, I listen to the dead. I meet over Zoom with a Rabbi named Moishe Kaplan, and read through passages of the Babylonian Talmud: a 2,711-page collection of tales and debates, roughly 1500 years old and written in Aramaic and Hebrew.

Eli Tadmor, PhD, earned a doctorate in Assyriology from Yale University in 2024. He is currently under contract with Yale University Press to write Erra: An Ancient Myth in a New Translation. His work can be found on www.elitadmor.com. Every Monday evening, I listen to the dead. I meet over Zoom with a Rabbi named Moishe Kaplan, and read through passages of the Babylonian Talmud: a 2,711-page collection of tales and debates, roughly 1500 years old and written in Aramaic and Hebrew. I do this as part of the 2448 project, which invites intellectually curious people worldwide to commit to studyin

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