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Title: Poorly written and edited
Review: This book is perfectly genial, but there are a lot of problems with it. The most minor is that it is full of typos and inconsistancies in spelling (such as writing Shabbos in one place and Shabbat in another -- with no explanation why).It's hard to tell who the intended audience for this book is. An educated person will not learn anything new from it and an uneducated person will often find the stories and explanations repetitive, inadequate, ambiguous, and sometimes plain bizarre (at one point the author quotes Erich von Daniken!).But the very worst problem is even though this is a guide to the Talmud and not contemporary Judaism, an uneducated person may not realize the disconnect between the two -- that something talked about in the Talmud is not necessarily what is practiced today -- and will thus get a distorted view of modern practices.This book is Talmud Lite and is only for someone who has a superficial interest in the topic.
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