The Talmud and the Internet

There the Rabbis reveal that God spends three hours of His day studying Talmud. One of the reasons I love this answer is that it confirms my own feeling that the Talmud is so vast and so complicated that even God, who presumably has a good working knowledge of His own book, nevertheless has to devote a portion of every day to studying it. The image of God studying Talmud also argues nicely that it isn’t simply what’s in the book but the business of being engaged with the book that matters.

The promise of the Talmud, I suppose, is that it isn’t a book—it’s a sort of drift net for catching God, stretching out through time and space in ever-widening spools