Course for Mastering the Talmud

For many centuries, the study of Talmud Bavli has been the full-time occupation of Torah scholars. Thousands of volumes of commentary on the Talmid were composed, helping to shed light on its words and those of Rashi, Tosafot, and other classic commentators. In Spain, a tradition of researching the Talmud in depth was developed and followed through the generations by the Sephardic descendants of those scholars. In more recent times, however, a new approach to Talmud study called pilpul has brought about a steep decline in the number of Torah scholars and the quality of their scholarship.

Shuvi Nafshi’s policy is to restore and continue the glorious tradition of Sephardic Torah scholarship. Its scholars and students study the Talmud in this manner, page after page, tractate after tractate, with the goal of mastering a thorough understanding of the entire Talmud. To this end, each of our courses is supervised and navigated by prominent rabbis who direct the students, showing them the proper method of research.