Limmud Seattle 2019

While the Talmud serves as the basis of traditional Jewish law, its pages are replete with diversions and tangents, sometimes fantastical and sometimes super-technical. Later codes of law edited many of these details out in favor of a more linear and apparently logical presentation of Jewish law. These talmudic "digressions," however, remain crucial to our understanding of the basis for halachah and its philisophical underpinnings. In this session, we will examine one such "digression" in the first chapter of the Tractate Succah and analyze the significance of its structure to our understanding of Jewish law.