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Koren Talmud Bavli Noé Edition #4
Eiruvin Part One, Standard Color
The Koren Talmud Bavli is a groundbreaking edition of the Talmud that fuses the innovative design of Koren Publishers Jerusalem with the incomparable scholarship of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. The Koren Talmud Bavli Standard Edition is a full-size, full-color edition that presents an enhanced Vilna page, a side-by-side English translation, photographs and illustrations, a brilliant commentary, and a multitude of learning aids to help the beginning and advanced student alike actively participate in the dynamic process of Talmud study.
274 pages, Hardcover
First published January 21, 2013
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May 12, 2013
Like Artscroll's Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud, Koren's English-language translation of the Talmud Bavli with commentary by Adin Steinsaltz provides a great resource for English readers who don't yet have a great command of Hebrew and Aramaic.
While Steinsaltz's commentary is not as thorough as that provided in the Artscroll edition, it is still more than sufficiently informative, providing helpful cross-references, background information on arguments, concepts, and personalities behind the Talmud Bavli.
Unlike the Artscroll edition, Koren's Steinsaltz edition places the classic Vilna pages (with vowel-pointing on the central text and on Rashi's commentary) at one end of the book, and the English translation with parallel Hebrew and Aramaic text at the other end of the book, nearly cutting in half the number of actual pages needed to present both the Vilna text and translation (Artscroll's Tractate Berachos, for example, takes up two volumes each of which is roughly the same size as the single-volume edition by Koren).
The English translation, as in the Artscroll edition, provides a literal translation (in bold type) that is expanded and elucidated upon (in normal type). The Koren edition doesn't make as judicious use of typeface to distinguish between texts originating in the Mishnah and Gemara, but all such instances are clearly signalled in the elucidation of the translation.
Koren's Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud unquestionably stands side-by-side with the Artscroll Talmud as the best English-language resource available for the non-Yeshiva-trained individual who wishes to gain some familiarity with this great work.
While Steinsaltz's commentary is not as thorough as that provided in the Artscroll edition, it is still more than sufficiently informative, providing helpful cross-references, background information on arguments, concepts, and personalities behind the Talmud Bavli.
Unlike the Artscroll edition, Koren's Steinsaltz edition places the classic Vilna pages (with vowel-pointing on the central text and on Rashi's commentary) at one end of the book, and the English translation with parallel Hebrew and Aramaic text at the other end of the book, nearly cutting in half the number of actual pages needed to present both the Vilna text and translation (Artscroll's Tractate Berachos, for example, takes up two volumes each of which is roughly the same size as the single-volume edition by Koren).
The English translation, as in the Artscroll edition, provides a literal translation (in bold type) that is expanded and elucidated upon (in normal type). The Koren edition doesn't make as judicious use of typeface to distinguish between texts originating in the Mishnah and Gemara, but all such instances are clearly signalled in the elucidation of the translation.
Koren's Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud unquestionably stands side-by-side with the Artscroll Talmud as the best English-language resource available for the non-Yeshiva-trained individual who wishes to gain some familiarity with this great work.
April 29, 2021
I love how the rabbis manage to discuss EVERYTHING in between discussing eiruvin!
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