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Title: The Pentateuch and Haftorahs: Hebrew Text English Translation and Commentary by J.H. Hertz ISBN: 0-900689-21-8 Publisher: Soncino Pr Ltd Pub. Date: 01 January, 1960 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Condensed Torah Commentary
Comment: The distilled wisdom of the ages in about 1000 pages - no one could do it better. I have read through this volume every year for several years and never cease to discover new insights. Recommended it for both Jewish and Christian students of the holy scriptures.
Rating: 5
Summary: Second Best?
Comment: Is this the second best rendition, in Hebrew of the Torah with a side-by-side English translation, and provided with commentary, or is it just a matter of taste? According to my taste, the best version, and most modern, is "The Torah" by W. Gunther Plaut. You may read my review of that version, which I recommend when considering the purchase of this book.
For the record, the Pentateuch is another name for the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, the five books of Moses.
This book is most commonly used in the sanctuary of the Conservative synagogue, as compared to the Plaut volume, which serves the same purpose in the Reform synagogue.
I have both volumes side-by-side on an honored place in my living room. I recommend both. However, to my taste, Plaut is 'first among equals.'
Postscript: Don't be fooled by the title; Plaut includes the Haftorahs similarly to Hertz.
Rating: 5
Summary: This Book Helped Keep Me Jewish
Comment: It is a tradition among the Jews that when one reads the Bible one should also read the commentaries of our ancestors as well. This masterpiece of Jewish commentary by the late Chief Rabbi of Great Britain J.H. Hertz incorporates not only the thoughts of Rabbi Hertz himself but also those of Rashi, Saadya and many other Jewish sages.
I have been picking this book up and browsing through it, or referring to it for a specific point, for almost thirty years. If you can only have a few books in your Jewish library this book ought to be one of them.
A further point. I, too, used to think that Hertz's commentary used Hertz's own translation of the Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses. In fact, Hertz'z book uses the normative (in his day) 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation.
Hertz's approach is decidedly Orthodox, but you don't have to be Orthodox to appreciate this work, which I believe will be in print as long as there are Jews who speak English. And if you are thinking of a gift for a Bar/Bat Mitzvah or for Chanukah I can't think of a better choice than this one.
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Title: Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary by David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, The Rabbinical Assembly ISBN: 0827607121 Publisher: Jewish Publication Society Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $72.50 |
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Title: Everyman's Talmud : The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages by Abraham Cohen ISBN: 0805210326 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 07 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Chumash: The Stone Edition by Nosson Scherman, Rabbi Nosson Scherman, Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz ISBN: 0899060145 Publisher: Mesorah Pubns Ltd Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Torah a Modern Commentary/Hebrew Opening by Gunther Plaut, W. Gunther Plaut, Bernard J. Bamberger ISBN: 080740165X Publisher: Union of American Hebrew Congregations Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Hebrew-English Tanakh by Jewish Publication Society of America ISBN: 0827606974 Publisher: Jewish Publication Society Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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