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In "The Talmud and the Internet," Jonathan Rosen
finds links between two distant universes.

wander out into the world" after the
Temple was destroyed, the Internet out
Special to the Jewish News
of the loss of books as objects.
Rosen also shows how the Talmud
ne of the many joys of read-
and
the Internet and the worlds they
ing The Talmud and the
represent
are not at all the same. "The
Internet: A Journey Between
Talmud
was
produced by the moral
Worlds (Farrar, Straus and
imperative
of
Jewish law, the free play of
Giroux; $16) by Jonathan Rosen is that
great
minds,
the
pressures of exile, the
is
immediate:
Readers
will
effect
its
self-conscious need to keep a civilization
probably never look at a page of the
together and a driving desire to identify
Talmud or at their computer screens in
and follow the unfolding world of God.
quite the same way again. •
Nobody was trying to buy airline tickets
Drawing links between two seeming-
or meet a date," he writes.
ly distant worlds, Rosen shows how the
But the book is less about the
sage Ben Ben Bag's saying about the
Talmud and the Internet per se than it
Talmud, "Turn it and turn it for every-
is about Rosen, and the way he sees the
thing is in it," might also be true of the
world. For him, the Talmud is the world
Internet.
of tradition, the religious impulse, and
"The Rabbis referred to the Talmud
the Internet the world of tech-
as a yam, a sea —
nology, modernity, the secular.
and though one is
"I live between these poles, I
hardly intended to
toggle
between them," Rosen
`surf' the Talmud,
says
in
an interview near his
something more
Manhattan home.
than oceanic
The former culture editor of
metaphors links
The Forward has written an
the two verbal uni-
original, compelling and soulful
verses. Vastness
book, packed with ideas,
and an uncatego-
literary references and
rizable nature are
fine writing.
in part what define
The book began as an
E
them both," he
elegy for his grandmoth-
writes.
er, who died three years
Rosen never
ago "and who wasn't
claims to be a tal-
much interested in the
mudic scholar nor
Talmud
or the Internet."
an Internet guru, but he is a child
After
her
death, he
of both worlds. He compares the
sought
solace
in a medi-
look of a page of the Talmud,
tation
by
John
Donne:
with its central text and surround-
"All
mankind
is
of one
ing commentaries, with a home
Jonathan Rosen:
volume. When one man
Tractate surfing.
page on the Internet, "where noth-
dies, one chapter is not
ing is whole in itself but where
torn out of the book but translated into
icons and text boxes are doorways
a better language; and every chapter
through which visitors pass into an
must be so translated."
infinity of cross-referenced texts and
When he couldn't find the reference
conversations."
in
his
books, he tried searching the
Both the Talmud and the Internet
Internet and found the lines on an ama-
inspire a community of users, who join
teur Web site. "For one moment," he
in a dialogue across space and time.
writes, "there in dimensionless, chilly
Both are complex and noisy, with a
cyberspace, I felt close to my grand-
sense of ongoing argument and inter-
mother, close to John Donne and close
ruption. And, both are born partly out
to some stranger who, as it happens,
of loss — the Talmud out of the "Jewish
designs software for a living."
need to pack civilization into words and

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