The People's Talmud explained in a very Big Nutshell

so fearing that at least more than one hand was going to go up when I asked that question what I will do is I will just take a few minutes to explain that people come with what it's all about and then afterwards if there are any questions mostly with you I mean I'll be happy at the end of the class to explain it further and then I'll also tell you the class which we will go to which you can leave it you didn't want to come for that that's okay it's built on this peoples tongue so it's a good example of what I'm going to show you so in brief the idea is like this that the Talmud is the OS it's the operating system of Jewish thought from the Talmud comes everything you can go from there feeds of Kabbalah you've learned the glory kotiga and many other sources obviously Jewish law Jewish philosophy you name it anything that comes even those things which we identify is so distinctively Jewish women lying Shabbat candles where do you know that from it's not in the Torah right this is all in the oral tradition and that which makes our unique relationship to the Bible is the oral tradition right for example says the Torah in the Bible right an eye for an eye well what if the person who stands out somebody's eye only has one eye so if you stand out his eye now he will be permanently blind but he didn't blinding the other person who just took out one eye or what if the person whose one I lost his whole life was that he looks through a microscope and he looks at gems whereas the other guy obviously nobody wants to lose an eye but he doesn't necessarily need the eye for what he does for his work so therefore the oral tradition comes along and says certainly I friend I cannot be understood literally and therefore explain to us it means monetarily the value of that person's eye needs to be replaced as if you were actually replacing the eye and its value of what was lost okay that's one of millions of examples therefore the Talmud not only is the platform of Jewish the Talmud has also been that which is experience every single civilization every single movement in history the Jews have been there with their tablet and extrapolating continually adding and understanding and using the didactics and all the rest of what the Talmud is in fact the Talmud is the original Facebook it's the longest running non-stop dialog in human history that incorporates virtually everything from how do you tie your shoe - how many other inhabited planets are there in the universe so the problem becomes like this to really be able to access Tom wouldn't law or Talmudic wisdom either you have to know the real rigorous and I suggest that it's worth noting but you need to know the rigorous understanding of Health on what is actually read and understood clearly knowing the language will assist you I mean art scroll and knowledge titles these are tremendous and wonderful work but they're only going to kind of help you kind of skim the surface which may be good and at a certain point you will definitely fall off the cliff because as one of my friends once said I don't own it up so I don't care that Gore's another person's odds so certain point merely doing the translation even with the commentary some point can make the Tomlin tedious and boring god forbid so now the question is this Tom wood has survived everything from the Greeks or the Romans or what have you right through ash what's all the way to today but suddenly our generation tends to be disconnected when you move outside of the five percent of on Israel that that really are engaged in the Talmud and even those which I call peripheral the document which God bless them they're wonderful but most people in documents just simply going straight through and it's a rabbi sitting up there spoon feeding them and if you ask them what they learn ten pages earlier chances are very little so once you move away from that you find that in other Jewish circles Talmud isn't even relevant is it doesn't mean it doesn't apply it doesn't speak and so on so that people's Tom wood is an effort of a massive effort to revamp I don't want to say translate but to revamp the Talmud in a way that's very accessible to the Millennials and to this world today so with the people Tommen has done from the beginning of the Talmud of rojo to the end of NIDA it using certain criteria has extracted 8,000 primary concepts of what's in the tablet and has repackage them because it's a Talmudic primer in other words it's jobs like a spark plug to get you started and from there hopefully you'll go on and on and on but as a primer as opposed to a translation it has no loyalty to the actual text its loyalty is to the actual thinking behind the text so therefore when you suddenly hit upon a people's powered quote which we'll see in our actual class tonight you might actually find that Bob Dylan rebbi akiva are on the same paragraph and then that way is because all of a sudden you'll find out that when Andy Warhol said everybody's got to have 15 minutes in vain well guess what that's actually a table on page so-and-so so therefore it becomes an effort to try to take the westernized or the world because also includes a lot of Chinese thinking as well and Asian in a Hindu thought and to show how the town would share these ideas or maybe has a different take on these ideas now the problem became when you have this much information how do you navigate how do you access this information so what therefore became necessary were to build multiple gates to help you the end user find this information so one gate is using prehistoric dinosaur technology called con Google well you know you put in a word and you get a word what bu which is cool it helps question is what if you have a word but the words not there let's say for example you have a phrase called circumstantial evidence and you're a lawyer and you want to look up the legal approaches of law in the Talmud where you can type in existential circumstance nut is going to pop up because there are no such words which would then be appearing in the translation but guess what there are at least five times in the Talmud discusses in depth exertion essential circumstances so therefore what was done is we made three other dates in one of these gates is called lifestyle and it runs everything from animal kingdom down to zodiac it's four hundred and fifty different aspects of almost every facet of human life that works in what is called an Talmudic language cloud prot as a group and a member of the group so that for example you could come down under doctors and medicine and a subcategory would be surgery and operations and you would suddenly discovered in the tongue with his brain surgery you would Sully discovered the first Lippo suction surgery you would find how to build a surgical room how to prep a patient and so on things which would be very difficult in it's certainly an easy format to be able to find that information the third gate is just simple listings which would help you in terms of finding categories so let's say for example you go onto holidays you want to find Hanukkah and sheep it would pull together all of these various you know degrees of concepts that relate to Hanukkah and so on and the fourth one are about two thousand plus one liners which we really refer to more as teasers and the teasers are kind of designed for two functions one is to get you to say WTF which if you don't know that expression stands for watch the fun right or it's the ants floor welcome to Facebook oh okay but they are designed to get you to go what and as soon as you do what and then you click on it it brings you into more information for example I can come up here and I can start working on our reverse this Boop for example I can go in I can click on something which says umm how to perform a sex change well I think of what a doctor that yes in fact even Rashi brings it and say Fabray she what's wrong she bringing say for a yes bingo you're like maybe six out of hundreds of people i usally blow this out too exactly Deena is sorry laya is pregnant she does a quick mathematical equation that is the boy that she has were to come out etc and it becomes a girl in fact the Zohar brings the same so by Yosef was a girl and rock albums and it becomes a boy so okay how to perform sex changes one thing we use prayers opposed to surgery when it's a sex change so therefore you suddenly put it in that radicular it captures the interest of people and that's what these two thousand plus one lines do but they have another function for people who really do enjoy learning they become a tremendous way of cos aura of reviewing learning because by going through these quick little one-liners and testing yourself with them you get to see how much you really retain fact we did a focus group test we took people who one woman who was in the group identified herself as a third generation left-wing atheist merits voting Israeli to which I said ah not perfect and we pitted her with others against a group of she guys were nice incident night you guys religious guys who had just finished Bubba Mencia in the document and we prevents presented both of them with approximately thirty five of these little one-liner teasers that just run the gamut of baba metzia and to the pillow knee whatever that means we gave them copies of the people's public version of Bubba Mencia guess who mopped the floor with whom was unbelievable it was really unbelievable and in a matter of fact if a person realizes what this tool is again it's not where the Tom wood ends it's where the Talmud can begin it becomes a vehicle where any of us myself included you could within a year three times virtually uploaded to your brain I'm going to say conservatively even on Orthodox often conservatively two-thirds of all the ideas natal would I mean what you do is and that's another thing we're not talking about being religious or non-religious we're talking about if you're Jewish this is your heritage this is your this is your wisdom this is your knowledge does everything it's you it's not owned by one of the twelve tribes it's owned by all of the people and in fact this even for non-jews because guess what here's the big surprise there's only one guy who makes all of us so one God loves all people and would love knowledge because the world was created in wisdom and so therefore when we elevate our capability for being wise the impact of a wiser nation is the easiest path to healing our world tikkun olam so that's what the people's comet is all about and with the last five minutes I have now gives it to our class I had prepared anyone who would like fearing that this is what people would think I will show you that this database is designed to develop various products and one of them of course is an online app that would allow you full accessibility to be able to be able to see and use this information so on but a another aspect is print so we have God willing we'll be ready hopefully soon make six months or so the entire shops in it the people's talmud version and we also have this kind of like really trippy sort of this is a mock-up of course but we will have something which will be about a 200 page catalog the catalog is really quite cool because it uses a new kind of technology which is called printed digit so printed digit means that you can like come in here again these are just examples but this would be for example says the mystical Authority 1520 pages on the mystical so you might discover that and it always references where in the town where you can find these sources so you'll find that the good morning or resort discusses that there are actually 18 thousand other inhabited planets in the universe ok so you might read this little blurb and again we try to be very ADHD sensitive so everything is like limited but if you want more you can into your device iPad or what have you and it would read the page and suddenly you have an augmented reality where you would see little planets spinning around on your device we're all still looking at the page and bringing you more information as well as a link to web we can go further and further and further so these are the various aspects of it I'll leave this anyone has a look afterwards they're welcome to but this is what I actually stole this book we're being recorded I actually was inspired by the line of Levi's divinity founding members realize you ride bread you don't have to be Jewish to love Levi's so that's what you put here you don't have to be Jewish to love the Talmud sharing Jewish wisdom with a whole world and why because everybody has a soul that's what the pupils come with is in it in a very big nutshell okay