Archive - Talmud & Tech

Pt2 Anecdotes of Funeral Honors for Babylonian Torah Scholars (Moed Katan 25a-b)

This is the second and final part of a two-part series.

Oct 23

Pt1 Anecdotes of Funeral Honors for Babylonian Torah Scholars (Moed Katan 25a-b)

Funeral Honors of Rav Safra; Rav Huna; Rav Ḥisda; Rabba bar Huna and Rav Hamnuna

Oct 22

From Dust to Swords: Linking Abraham’s Battle in Genesis 14 With Naḥum of Gimzo’s Mission to Rome (Sanhedrin 108b-109a)

The miraculous weapons of Abraham and Naḥum of Gimzo/’Gam-Zo’

Published on Talmud & Tech • Oct 21

Marking Graves: Scriptural Foundations for the Obligation (Moed Katan 5a-b)

The Mishnah permits marking graves (ציון קברות) on Chol HaMoed, so that travelers avoid ritual impurity.

Oct 20

Blessings Before Eating, and Working vs. Studying Torah (Berakhot 35a-b)

This sugya opens the sixth chapter of tractate Berakhot, which turns from prayer and the Shema to blessings over food.

Oct 19

Pt3 Rabbinic Elitism and the Am Ha’aretz: Hierarchy, Hostility, Hatred, and Distrust (Pesachim 49b)

This is the third and final part of a three-part series.

Published on Talmud & Tech • Oct 18

“What Is Your Name?”: Named Women in the Babylonian Talmud

For a while now, as part of a major project on Talmudic onomastics, I’ve been collecting names that appear in Talmudic literature and categorizing them…

Oct 16

Putting Biblical and Talmudic Places on a Map in Bekiut

I have added a map of biblical and Talmudic places to Bekiut. The current initial version includes 34 places, from Jerusalem and Tiberias to Alexandria…

Oct 15

Bekiut’s Talmud Bavli Footnotes Feature, and Finding Some of the Most Complex Passages in the Talmud

I’ve added a new feature to Bekiut’s Talmud Bavli reader that moves much of the explanatory commentary in the English Talmud Bavli into expandable…

Oct 14

Making BDB and Jastrow Dictionaries Easier to Read on Bekiut

I have been revising the BDB and Jastrow dictionary readers on Bekiut, with much of the recent work concentrated in September and early October. Both…

Oct 13

Impressions from the Hemdat Workshop on AI and Rabbinic Literature

Notes on three days at the ISF workshop “Artificial Intelligence in the Service of Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature Research: Challenges and…

Oct 11

AI Coding Agents for Research in Rabbinic Literature: Recent Developments and Case Studies

Based on a transcript of my recent 20-minute presentation at the ISF workshop “Artificial Intelligence in the Service of Talmudic and Rabbinic…

Oct 9

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