rylah
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I'm interested. Let's see what You have to quote....
I have only to quote the prominent Jewish religious authorities on the Talmud, like Ovadia Yosef, Yitzchak Ginsburgh or Moshe ben Maimon (Moses Maimonides).
Shall I do that?
Do what You want, but without context I'm afraid well be tossing water with a fork... You can't expect to grasp it by not ever reading a full chapter...
Each Rebbe You'll present I can present a counterpart in the opposite direction...that's the thing about Talmud You seem to miss. There's a whole system of debates so You can pick anything out of context thinking You know the meaning. That's only the 1st stage- the literal meaning of the word-PSHAT...then we go deeper and deeper using specific tools and systems.
If You want a mature debate or dialogue on a whole series of books that many Law, theology and philosophy systems were based upon, there's no way to oversimplify.
Although Maimonides is considered now a cornerstone, he was debated fiercely during his time. And that's just one example.
Am I clear?
I myself have my problems with Talmud, especially the Babylonian
but in no way I'm gonna oversimplify it to 'debunk' isolated parts of a debate.
If You want You can 'dumb this down' but this way You'll only prove my point.