Avodah Zarah, Daf Bet, Part 3 Introduction This section begins a long aggadah in which the nations come in front of God at the end of days and God judges them for their failings. In a sense, the aggadah s purpose is to explain why the Torah was given to Israel...
Avodah Zarah, Daf Bet, Part 2 Introduction The tractate opens with a lexigraphical discussion of the word I have translated festival איד, whether it is spelled with an aleph or an ayin. While today Ashkenazim and Sephardim do not distinguish...
Avodah Zarah, Daf Bet, Part 1 Introduction to Avodah Zarah Avodah Zarah is the Hebrew word for idolatry. It literally means foreign worship . Tractate Avodah Zarah discusses the prohibition of Jews using objects that non-Jews may have used while...
