https://staging2.theplaylist.net/joseph-cedar-talks-his-oscar-nominated-footnote-why-argument-is-a-necessary-force-20120309/ Sun, 22 May 2016 04:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/joseph-cedar-talks-his-oscar-nominated-footnote-why-argument-is-a-necessary-force-20120309/#comment-121063 Sun, 22 May 2016 04:24:14 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/joseph-cedar-talks-his-oscar-nominated-footnote-why-argument-is-a-necessary-force-253467/#comment-121063 The Talmud isn't really "the supreme Jewish law book and describes how rules listed in the Torah (Judaism’s most important text, made up of parts of the Bible and 613 spiritual commandments, or “mitzvot”) should be applied to various circumstances in actual life." It's actually a record of the arguments rabbis had centuries ago over Judaic principles and finding laws from those principles. Their conclusions, which are the actual laws, are recorded in a book called the "Shulchan Aruch."

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