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 Volume Two of the Talmud will not make you happy... 
 I wouldn't know until I do. 😅  
 In Vol 2 a child molester went to court to get out of paying the child's bride price as a fine. 

The Sages sided with the molester on the grounds that the victim was under 3 and (in their, medically wrong, opinion) her hymen will regrow so no harm done. This was considered an important and valuable precedent, and included in the Talmud so future child molesters could re-use the defence.

The actual text is worse than my summary - its the tone, and the shekel-counting.

There's lots of other bad mojo - advice for slave-trading and the like, but the above is the worst.

I stopped after volume two, and stopped wondering about my great-grandparents apostasy from Judiasm to Christianity... 
 Well, that's not anything I haven't heard about the Talmud before. It's not high on my list of books to read.

Thank you for the warning.  
 Indeed. 3 is fresky degen jewish stuff.
I will stick to nubile 12 yo women.