GREAT READS → IMPRESSIONS Issue 1015 · June 9, 2024

Looking Forward Means Looking Back 

Me? I thought, hesitant. Who am I to write a book about the Tannaim and Amoraim?

Looking Forward Means Looking Back 

One afternoon during bein hasedorim, as I was diligently typing away on my laptop while peering back and forth between a Gemara and the screen, a close friend glanced over my shoulder and started reading. He was fascinated.

“Why don’t you write a book?” he asked. “No one knows this stuff.”

Me? I thought, hesitant. Who am I to write a book about the Tannaim and Amoraim?

But my friend is really persuasive, and he soon had me convinced.

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