Thursday, March 31, 2011

Even More on Korean Talmud Study

My good friend Lurker and I have been kicking around the Korean Talmud story since this past Sunday.

After searching around, he found that some evidence that the level of Talmud taught in South Korea actually does go at least a bit beyond mere aggada and Pirkei Avot-style ethical sayings. It seems that they also delve somewhat into the halakhic/legalistic topics in the Gemara.

For a good example of this, take a look here at "The Kids Times". This is from the website of The Kids Times, an English-language educational magazine for South Korean school children. It has a regular cartoon feature called "The Wisdom of the Talmud". This particular installment ("Negotiating the Rent") is very clearly based directly upon the Sugya at the beginning of Talmud Bavli Ketubot 103a.

It may not be the most complex sugya in the Talmud, but it does accurately portray the Talmudic discussion.



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4 comments:

Orange and Black said...

you guys certainly are being mashkia in this purimshpiel.

Shlomo said...

That's pretty cool.

Anonymous said...

In America we say the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Karl Marx would advise the worker(s) to throw off the yoke of tyranny. The working stiff always gets the shaft.

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