Steinsaltz completes Hebrew translation of the Talmud
The completion of this feat was marked on Sunday with the Global Day of Jewish learning.
By Haaretz Service
Forty-five years after beginning his monumental quest to translate the Babylonian Talmud into from its archaic Aramaic into contemporary Hebrew, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has completed the task.
The completion of this feat was marked on Sunday with the Global Day of Jewish learning.
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
The six-continent event kicked off with a life broadcast of Steinsaltz completing the final words of the translation.
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Monday, November 08, 2010
Steinsaltz Talmud completed
THE STEINSALTZ TALMUD has been completed: