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This is gigantic news, it's been a dream for decades. We only had the publication of the printed Artscroll translation within the past twenty years, and that was groundbreaking. But it's only really accessible if you go to your local Shul or have $3,500 lying around. Putting this online is a colossal achievement and will be marked in Jewish history forever: thats how big a deal this is. It was a labor that took decades, and culminated... yesterday!
To put this in perspective I'll borrow from Einstein:
I'm really excited. Up to now my only means of studying Talmud has been with some tractates that have been translated and put online, and more realistically studying from the printed edition with my Rabbi or at our library.
Moreover, this isn't just a PDF scan of the Talmud. It was a laborious word by word re-translation, interlinked to the other books of the Tanakh, the Zohar, the Midrash itself, and major commentaries through the ages. This is as close as you can get of the foundational corpus of Jewish thought at your fingertips.
Very exciting!
https://blog.sefaria.org/2017/02/07/setting-the-talmud-free/
With full Talmud translation, online library hopes to make sages accessible | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Leading Talmud translation goes free online with Sefaria | The Jewish Standard
To put this in perspective I'll borrow from Einstein:
The scientific organization and comprehensive exposition in accessible form of the Talmud has a twofold importance for us Jews. It is important in the first place that the high cultural values of the Talmud should not be lost to modern minds among the Jewish people nor to science, but should operate further as a living force. In the second place, the Talmud must be made an open book to the world, in order to cut the ground from under certain malevolent attacks, of anti-Semitic origin, which borrow countenance from the obscurity and inaccessibility of certain passages in the Talmud.
To support this cultural work would thus mean a tremendous achievement for the Jewish people.
I'm really excited. Up to now my only means of studying Talmud has been with some tractates that have been translated and put online, and more realistically studying from the printed edition with my Rabbi or at our library.
Moreover, this isn't just a PDF scan of the Talmud. It was a laborious word by word re-translation, interlinked to the other books of the Tanakh, the Zohar, the Midrash itself, and major commentaries through the ages. This is as close as you can get of the foundational corpus of Jewish thought at your fingertips.
Very exciting!
https://blog.sefaria.org/2017/02/07/setting-the-talmud-free/
With full Talmud translation, online library hopes to make sages accessible | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Leading Talmud translation goes free online with Sefaria | The Jewish Standard
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