The Essential Torah Temimah - Megillath Ruth

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THE ESSENTIAL
TORAH reMlMAH
In his introduction to the Torah Temimah, Harav Boruch Halevi Epstein writes:
"It has been our aim to show that this Torah, the Written Law, is a twin sister, as it were, to the Oral Law. They are inseparable — as body and soul, as flame and wick — the one, intimately enmeshed with the other. And so long as the Written Law is not conjoined with the explanations and addenda of the Oral Law, it is not a complete Torah. Its message is not complete and its mitzvah is not complete." That signal work — a telescoped synthesis of the Written and Oral Law — has become one of the most popular classics of Torah literature. Now, with the appearance oiThe Essential Torah Temimah, this vital resource has been rendered accessible to the English-reading public.
More than a verbatim translation. The Essential Torah Temimah is a thorough elucidation of the original text, using lan-gauge that is fluent, literate and articulate. Biblical verses are translated in... Tovább

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THE ESSENTIAL
TORAH reMlMAH
In his introduction to the Torah Temimah, Harav Boruch Halevi Epstein writes:
"It has been our aim to show that this Torah, the Written Law, is a twin sister, as it were, to the Oral Law. They are inseparable — as body and soul, as flame and wick — the one, intimately enmeshed with the other. And so long as the Written Law is not conjoined with the explanations and addenda of the Oral Law, it is not a complete Torah. Its message is not complete and its mitzvah is not complete." That signal work — a telescoped synthesis of the Written and Oral Law — has become one of the most popular classics of Torah literature. Now, with the appearance oiThe Essential Torah Temimah, this vital resource has been rendered accessible to the English-reading public.
More than a verbatim translation. The Essential Torah Temimah is a thorough elucidation of the original text, using lan-gauge that is fluent, literate and articulate. Biblical verses are translated in accordance with the Talmudic derivations, and the Tal-mudic sources are translated so as to reveal the derivations as implicit in the verse. Within the translation. Rabbi Silverstein incorporates the author's commentary and others', to provide maximum clarity.
This scholarly, erudite volume demonstrates Rabbi Silverstein's thorough mastery of his subject and his unique ability to transmit complex material in lucid, readily comprehensible fashion.
About the Translator
Rabbi Silverstein, an alumnus of the Mesivta Rabbi Chaim BerUn, was Phi Beta Kappa at Brooklyn College, from which he graduated at the head of his class, summa cum laude, with honors in English. In addition to his work as author and as translator of Torah classics (he is nearing completion of the monumental Complete Ein Yaakov) Rabbi Silverstein has taught at leading universities in the United States and in Israel. He has served as Principal of the Rambam Torah Institute m Los Angeles, the Magen David Yeshiva in Brooklyn, the Tonya Soloveitchik-Yeshiva University High School for Girls in Manhattan, and the Torah Academy of Philadelphia. He has taught on all levels, lectured extensively on teaching methodology, and supervised teachers for the Israeli Ministry of Education. He resides with his family in Jerusalem, where he is a senior lecturer at the Michlalah Jerusalem College for Women.
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