Judaism Decoded

Judaism Decoded describes both the textual tradition and the lived practice: the Tanakh, the Mishnah and Talmud, and the way halakha is derived and applied.

It covers the festival and life-cycle calendar, the synagogue and the home as parallel centres of practice, and the long historical arc from the Second Temple through the diaspora to the present.

The modern movements — Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and others — are described in their own terms and in relation to one another.