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About Talmidei Talmideihon
Talmidei Talmideihon began in Tzali’s living room, and is ever-evolving! At its heart, it is a largely DIY Svara-style beit midrash (house of study) meeting in Seattle. Talmidei Talmideihon offers 4- to 8-week courses where we dive into a few lines of Talmud, and translate them ourselves, word by word, from the original, using the Svara Method.
Talmidei Talmideihon, literally “students of their students” is an Aramaic phrase from the Kaddish d’Rabbanan, the prayer recited after studying from Rabbinic Texts. This name evokes two things: one, Aramaic, the language of Gemara, which makes up the bulk of the Talmud, and two, it highlights that in a T”T beit midrash, we all learn from and teach each other, and so we are all always the students of our teachers and vice versa.
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Meet Your Teacher
Tzali Rosser is an anarchist banjo player, scifi reader, and a lover of everything DIY, living in so-called Seattle. They fell in love with Talmud after taking Queer Talmud for the Beginner’s Mind at Svara, and ever since they haven’t looked back! They are a graduate of Cohort 5 of Svara’s two-year Teaching Kollel, a program that trains people as Talmud scholars and educators to teach in their own Jewish communities.
Talmud excites them for the same reason folk music, science fiction, and philosophy excites them – it’s an ever-evolving and yet ever-preserved tradition which contains wisdom, tall tales, and things we definitely want to leave behind! As inheritors of our traditions, we get to evolve alongside our tradition, and create the tradition that our children will inherit. And what a joy it is to do so!
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