Written by the Orthodox historian Rabbi Berel Wein, The Oral Law of Sinai is an extraordinary and beautifully illustrated book that explores the Talmud--a law book that is a faithful transmission of the Oral Law of Sinai. As Rabbi Wein explains, the Talmud is two separate books comprising the Oral Law. This work offers an explanation of the first book of the Talmud, the Mishnah
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The book itself is beautiful, but it fails to connect the mind to the heart. Intellectually, the author sprinkles us with a minute -yet- direct historical "stories" of how the Mishnah came to be, in the process showing just how fractured Judaism has become. If anything, the Oral Law has proven more divisive than unifying. Judaism has nothing to criticize Christianity over its various sects and denominations. The author calls the people's characters "superhuman", but the book (and history) doesn't present... more info
