100 years of Daf Yomi and 500 years of printed Talmud

TALMUD WATCH: Marking the printed Talmud at 500 - opinion. Steinsaltz describes the Talmud as the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. Why shouldn’t it attract wider interest now that it is much more accessible? (JACOB SIVAK, Jerusalem Post).

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the worldwide Daf Yomi (“a page a day”) study of the Talmud, as well as the 500th anniversary of the first printing of the Talmud.

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