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Great Books

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Jewish

 Sacred Literature

 


 

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If we pare it down to the most famous and culturally central Jewish sacred / rabbinic works beyond the KJV books, this is the core shelf most people would recognize.

Babylonian Talmud
(Bavli)

Jerusalem Talmud
(Yerushalmi)

Midrash Rabbah

Mishnah

Mishneh Torah

Pirkei Avot
(Ethics of the Fathers)

Sefer Yetzirah

Shulchan Aruch

Siddur

Targum Onkelos

Tosefta

Zohar

This is probably the best concise “great books” list:

Mishnah + Talmud = the heart of Rabbinic Judaism

Midrash = interpretive / narrative expansion of Scripture

Mishneh Torah + Shulchan Aruch = the two most famous legal codifications

Zohar + Sefer Yetzirah = the most famous mystical texts

Siddur = the living prayer book used in worship

Pirkei Avot = the most widely quoted ethical tractate

 

 

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