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Conference taveng::bagels

Title:BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest
Notice:1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration
Moderator:SMURF::FENSTER
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1524
Total number of notes:18709

476.0. "El Am Talmud - Masechta Brachot" by POBOX::LENOW () Mon Jun 13 1988 11:50

    I am looking for some information on the El Am Talmud. We have a
    study group that has been in existence at Anshe Emet in Chicago
    for more than 40 years. We are about to start a new masechta and
    I have suggested that we would be better off with the El Am than
    the Soncino Aramaic/English Translations that we have been using
    lately.
    
    Our problem is that we no longer have "buki betalmud" that we once
    had. We would also like to appeal to wider audience. 
    
    If anyone has any ideas for textual material, I would appreciate
    hearing from them.
    
    Steinsaltz is preparing some English translations but they will
    not be available for some time.
    
    I have  a personal problem in that I would like to depart from the
    more traditional study methods which are not critical enough for
    my tastes. I remember thirty years ago studing Sanhedrin at the
    Yeshiva and simultaneously studing exactly the same material with
    Rabbi Jonathan Goldstein as he learned it from Saul Lieberman, Z'L.
    There was a significant difference. 
    
    Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
    
    Moishe Lenow
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