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What Is The Best Translation Of Jewish Scriptures?

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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what are your thoughts on the art SCH Tanakh which Tanakh would you recommend uh first of all I think art scroll is a fantastic organization I've said it many times over the years I think that there are gift to the English speaking uh uh people uh in this generation and uh in general the Jewish people uh they also have started doing things in other languages as well or at least more than in the past even uh as far as uh their their uh Scholars that they have under their umbrella are fantastic their translations are fantastic they do great work uh they always remain true to the to the toy itself they're very serious people so as far as the organization at large fantastic now as far as specific products uh I think that if you're going to go with let's say the teachings of the tah itself the uh it's better to get the uh uh for the sake of learning it's better to get each book by itself meaning the five books of Moses should be the uh at the very least it should be the stone Edition Kash uh you know you shouldn't get the tanak uh and which includes the Kash you should get at the very least the stone Edition Kash because that will have at least a little bit of commentary if you can get uh some of the things that have even more commentary like the uh the Rashi that they have uh or the ulos that they have or some of the others that I've comment there it's even more but I would say starting off with the kumash the stone Edition Kash it's a uh you know it's a great start this has been my best friend for many many years I don't take I don't go anywhere without him uh I love him so much he's uh this is my stone Edition I don't replace him I don't betray him I don't uh I don't go anywhere without him he's always with me bu so without myash there's no your own that's my that's my now as far as the other 20 the other uh uh 19 books of the Tanakh yes I have a small Ed uh edition of the tanak but this I use for lectures most of the time uh especially when I travel I go give lectures because to carry so many different books if I'm using multiple sources I I like to carry my sources with me I don't like to take I don't like just to rely on my notes I like to carry the sources with me in case somebody uh um asks a question they want to see it in the book itself uh or I simply the way I operate I like to look I have to look I don't have like prepared lectures uh so I look at the ideas that I have uh or the different things that I've highlighted and the words come so it's a it's so when I uh when I travel when I go I've you know I have my my tanak with me and as you can see it has a little bit of a little bit of um a little bit of wear and tear for my all my little footnotes and different pages and bem may all of us Merit to continue do many more of these so I have this but this is not the only thing I have I also have the each individual book each individual book and some of them multiple different versions I have the art scroll I have some other uh uh Publishers uh you know just in Hebrew and so on of the other books uh why because this tanak version is fantastic for the scripture itself but it's not enough to learn from for the commentary it has very very little commentary usually just one a couple different lines on the bottom that specific specifically highlight you know one or two points uh upstairs there it's not cover it's not meant for studying it's meant for review but for study purposes you need something that has much more commentary by Rashi uh ramban uh the you know all depends who who who you want but uh you need a lot more commentary for that you should get uh the uh this this is a uh this is they have a whole collection this is just one of them there's a whole bunch of them I'm not going to take all of them but they have for sh one and two they have one one one entire SE meaning this seph is the same almost the same thickness as the tanak but this is just the book of this is just the book of so this AR SC has and each page is full full of comment uh so it's you could study a lot from it uh and the same thing goes for Jeremiah Ezekiel Proverbs uh Psalms and so on so what I would recommend is going with their uh first of all bigger size books than the small one uh because it's easier to read uh but also the individual versions of each one of the books uh cuz that way you'll have a lot more to learn uh and believe me even after you finish all of those you still haven't even started there a lot more that commentary out there uh in in Hebrew uh and some in English as well uh but that's fantastic foundation fantastic uh thing to start with uh and to learn over the years not to start with uh it's for both uh you know new students and old students Scholars I know some me that have art scroll in their houses and they me and sometimes they'll study their regular sometimes they'll study their AR depending on the pace of their learning and if if they're trying to reach certain metrics if they're trying to do certain things uh so point is is that uh for tanak purposes for study individual books individual books with more commentary not too much meaning I wouldn't I wouldn't start uh with let's say mames that has over 40 books uh because that is uh too much commentary for you to be able to finish the weekly parasa like the uh you know each book is uh let's say less than a handful of parot meaning it'll take you a long time just to finish uh the the five books of Moses uh anyway the the M unfortunately Ki uh didn't uh you know died in the middle of writing it so the the commentaries uh are uh you know shorter and shorter as the years go on uh that that were in by other um but point being is that it's still a huge set and it's it's good to have in the house it's good to learn from but as your weekly review Daily Review uh daily learning I would say the art scroll Set uh the Rashi set or the uh uh the the the stone Edition they have a few different things that uh the classics go over there Classics those are the classics go to the classics you get yourself uh beautiful set over there you'll have uh plenty plenty plenty of work uh to do and that you succeed doing it and many of you do it many of you guys do it not just the one person that asked the question [Applause] [Music]