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THE WISDOM OF THE TALMUD A Thousand Years of Jewish Thought By Rabbi BEN ZION BOKSER New York: Philosophical Library [1951] Click to enlarge First page of the tractate Berakot, from the first Talmud ever published, printed by Joshua Soncino, Dec. 19, 1483, through the courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Scanned, Proofed and Formatted at sacred-texts.com, by John Bruno Hare, December 2008–January 2009. This text is in the public domain in the US because its copyright was not renewed in a timely fashion at the US Copyright Office as required by law at the time. To Miriam Ruth and Baruch Micah