How the Talmud Can Change Your Life

“I could not put it down.” – A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically“Liel Leibovitz’s inspired and inspiring volume…is itself alive with wisdom, humor, and the generous lightning energy that illuminates the world.” – Jonathan Rosen, author of Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions“According to Leonard Cohen, the Talmud is ‘a manual for living with defeat.’ Liel Leibovitz, a biographer of Cohen, shows us in magnificent, hair-splitting detail how that works in practice. With much learning, unfailing insight, and storytelling skill, Leibovitz unveils a fascinating world of ancient sages and colorful rabbis, of sinners and saints, of wisdom found and lost and then found again. Read this book. You may realize that you have been a Talmudist all your life without knowing it. Or else that you want to be one for the rest of your life.” – Costica Bradatan, author of In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility

Liel Leibovitz is host of Tablet’s daily Talmud podcast Take One and cohost of the Unorthodox podcast. Author of A Broken Hallelujah and Stan Lee and coauthor of The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, he lives in New York City.