“The Hebrew word “pras” means prize, reward.  It also means a part of something, a piece.  On the occasion it means both—it is a prize, but it is only part […]

1. Two features distinguish the Daf Yomi: The daily learning of the Blatt Gemara, resulting in the completion of the whole of Shas in a period of over seven years, […]

Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Kasovsky, who died recently at the age of eighty- eight, was one of the many great and brilliant scholars with which Jerusalem was blessed in the last […]

Rashi, Ibn Ezra and the Ramban are the great early commentators of the Pentateuch.  Unlike the two others, the commentary of the Ramban is multi-dimension.  It offers the student simple […]

  I would like to write today a few lines about the Epistle of the Humility, said to have been sent by the Ramban (Moshe Ben Nachman) to his son. […]

  The Adar issue of “Sinai” which recently reached these shores, marks the completion of the fiftieth volume of this excellent monthly, which is dedicated to Torah, Jewish scholarship and […]

Through the many years of the preparatory work the Institute for the Publication of the Revised Israeli Talmud has amassed in addition to a large library of printed commentaries on […]