The Talmud and the Internet

The Talmud and the Internet is subtitled A Journey Between Worlds, by Jonathan Rosen

It joins the past to the present, and the living to the dead. It is the Easter Vigil, and the Talmud, and also the Internet. It transcends time and space, life and lifespan, the way of Art and the path of Science. This little gem of a book is poetry in motion, metaphysics in counterpoint with thermodynamics, the lost world of Eastern Europe and the lost world of Modern America. Jonathan Rosen writes with disarming simplicity and with overwhelming love of life. The poets among us will identify with his journey. Those of us not so gifted will wish to observe silence as these words are read to us in refectory, surfing to scenes of Mont Saint Michel and Chartes as we listen on mp3 while munching our solitary sandwiches at our workstations. The technogeek and the Talmudist are one.

Buy this book. Eat this book. Open and close this book. You will find, in the words of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, that you have taken away only as much as a dog laps from the ocean.