Congratulations to the Rabbi on finishing his task.Rabbi Steinsaltz completes commentary on TalmudNow of course it is time to start over. See why, "My Translation and Publication of Bavli Hullin: Keeping My Siyyum Hadran Promise to the Talmud."
By JONAH MANDEL
Jewish communities worldwide will celebrate the completion of the 45-volume work, which took 45 years to write, on Global Day of Learning.
More than 350 Jewish communities worldwide will mark the Global Day of Jewish Learning on Sunday, in an unprecedented day of dialogue, study and exploration, celebrating the completion of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s monumental 45-volume translation and commentary on the Babylonian Talmud.
Summing up 45 years of work on the Talmud commentary aimed at giving Jewish texts back to the people, Steinsaltz, who recently completed the work on the Hulin tractate, will address the communities in classrooms, synagogues and community centers spanning from Albania to Uruguay in a live broadcast from Jerusalem’s City Hall at 9 p.m....
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For your amusement (but not very nice):
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/17/books/unlocking-the-rabbis-secrets.html
HT: Alan Brill
I don't recall seeing a better Talmud commentary "By LEON WIESELTIER" published in the past 21 years.
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