The chain of tradition

No land, no Temple, no king: what holds the people together is a conversation. Eight generations of masters carry it: the Men of the Great Assembly, the Pairs, the Tannaim of the Mishnah, the Amoraim of the Talmud, the Savoraim who sealed it, the Geonim of Babylon, the Rishonim of Spain and Ashkenaz, and the Acharonim down to our time. Watch its centre move from Judea to Babylon, to Spain and the Rhine, to Safed and Eastern Europe, and back to Jerusalem.