Talmudic tractate on Mount Everest

(JNS) - An Israeli man completed the study of a Talmudic tractate atop Mount Everest but fell short of setting a world record.

Moshe Frei, 56, from Petach Tikvah, was trekking Mount Everest with three friends when he completed the Menachot tractate on Monday.

"The timing was right, and it was a great place," Frei told JNS from Nepal on Wednesday.

His friends filmed a nearly four-minute video of him reading from the Jewish law book and posted it on social media.

The attorney said he has been studying a daily page of the Talmud for the last two decades.

He said he checked with the Chabad emissar...