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A Bride for One Night: Talmud TalesBrowse discussion questions Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly imagined fictions, drawing us into the lives of such characters as the woman who risks her life for a sister suspected of adultery; a humble
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Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly imagined fictions, drawing us into the lives of such characters as the woman who risks her life for a sister suspected of adultery; a humble schoolteacher who rescues his village from drought; and a wife who dresses as a prostitute to seduce her pious husband in their garden. Breathing new life into an ancient text, A Bride for One Night offers a surprising and provocative read, both for anyone already intimate with the Talmud or for anyone interested in one of the most influential works of Jewish literature.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 03/01/2014
ISBN: 9780827612099
Pages: 163
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
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I'm maybe a third of the way through this and already rethinking how I talk to coding agents. The reframe from "prompt engineering" to "context engineering" sounds like semantics until Marco walks you through why context poisoning, context clash, the Goldilocks zone for system prompts. That chapter alone reorganized something in my head. I keep going back to the line about garbage in, garbage out being the real reason agentic systems underperform.
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Essential Reading for Developers Serious About Agentic AI Workflows with Claude Code
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Agentic Coding with Claude Code is easily one of the most practical and forward-thinking AI development books I’ve read. Instead of treating Claude Code like a simple chatbot, this book shows how to turn it into a true agentic development platform capable of handling real-world engineering workflows.
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Before obtaining a copy of this book, I had not yet become familiar with Claude Code and didn't realize how robust AI Pair Programming is now. However, I did know and have rigorously promoted the absolute importance of Context (via Context Engineering) in any AI-prompted tasks, including coding. This book brings all of that together in an incredibly useful book (dare I say... a comprehensive toolkit and handbook) for AI-prompted coding in these multiple modalities: IDE, command-line, and pair programming. It covers memory management, agents, subagents, multiple-agent systems, context-sharing, orchestration, enforcement of coding standards, code maintenance, and more - for executing AI-assisted development with confidence. I highly recommend this book.
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