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The Jerusalem Talmud: A New Edition
By Hana Levi Julian and Hillel Fendel
A new edition of the Jerusalem Talmud has been published with an
index that meets the needs of the most rigorous researcher and allows
the layman to become almost as knowledgeable.
The new one-volume edition of the ancient sacred text includes seven
new indices, including a subject index of some 27,000 entries
covering topics such as labor laws, insurance, prison, abortion,
kidnapping and righteous gentiles. Another index covers some 6,000
Biblical verses.
In this way, the Jerusalem Talmud has become an open book for sages,
researchers, Rabbis and ordinary laypeople, who are now able to
explore in depth any subject which interests them, said attorney Zvi
Preisler, co-editor of the new edition together with Rabbi Shmuel Havlin.
The new volume's introduction explains, "The Jerusalem Talmud is the
Land-of-Israel version of the six orders of the Mishnah - the
distillation of all that the Land of Israel sages reflected upon and
taught in the approximately 200 years after the codification of the Mishnah."
A team of Talmudic scholars examined the entire Jerusalem Talmud for
seven years, Preisler said, in order to create the comprehensive indexes.
Even in the age of the internet, in which it is possible to find
every word of the Holy Scriptures through a database search, there is
a great advantage to an index of this kind, commented the editors.
The Talmud is comprised of the Oral Law, known as the Mishnah, and a
collection of discussions and rabbinic interpretations of the Law,
known as the Gemara. The Mishna and Gemara together complete the
Talmud - of which there are two.
The Jerusalem Talmud, written in both Hebrew and Aramaic, predates by
some 200 years the Babylonian Talmud, which the Sages wrote after the
Jewish exile from the Land of Israel.
"As is well-known," the introduction states, "the Jerusalem Talmud
was outshadowed over the course of many generations by the Babylonian
Talmud, and was not even available to many of the early Sages - yet
redemption has finally been achieved for the Jerusalem Talmud with
the publication of a modern and precise edition of the entire work."
The new edition of the Jerusalem Talmud is published by Ketuvim
Publishers of Jerusalem, which can be emailed at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Shmuel Ben-Gad,
Gelman Library,
George Washington University.
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