Rabbis Joshua and Rebecca Ben-Gideon lead Talmud study -- both how to study Talmud and discussion of the selected text. Study for winter/spring 2015 begins in January with the eighth perek of Masechet Sota. This perek begins with the speech a Kohen must make to troops before a war and explores the differences between a defensive war of necessity--what might be called a righteous war--and other wars.