Tal Keinan

Jul 15, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Leah Sarna |Akiva Schick |Abraham Socher |Tal Keinan

De Gruyter 803 pp., $152.99 A few summers ago, I came across a student crying in the beit midrash. This isn’t terribly unusual—I run summer programs for teenage girls. But this time was different. The sobbing student had been introduced to Talmud study in her Jewish day school, but only on that day did she learn that the Tosafot, a commentary penned by Rashi’s students and their medieval disciples and printed on the pages of the standard Vilna edition of the Talmud, was written by men.