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I've enjoyed being a computer science professor in Melbourne, Australia, as well as band leader/singer for the Schnapps Band. My high schooling was in Chabad and I continued at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh in Israel and later in life at Machon L'Hora'ah, Yeshivas Halichos Olam. View all posts by pitputim
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To be entirely honest this isn’t exactly a new translation. It is a new format for an old translation. Personally I prefer the Steinsaltz to the Artscroll, it doesn’t try to think for you nearly so much.
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I understood though that the english is a new translation?
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Actually it is not. Rav Steinsaltz translated the entire thing. Random house refused to publish it because it wasn’t selling. So Rav Steinsaltz released it on CD/DVD e-book, a few years back.
What is new here is the the layout(though I wish they had stuck with the traditional gemarra blatt the way they did in the Hebrew version) and that it is bound, and not on a compact disk.
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Looks like you are right
http://www.korenpub.com/EN/products/talmud/new_talmud/9789653016040
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I hope so… I own Rav Steinsaltz’s CD version.
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A very exciting new translation of Shas
http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/1.1708809
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The translation is entirely new – not the same as the Random House one. See http://530nm330hz.livejournal.com/437268.html
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i was just at a speech given by the chief editor of the translation last week(rabbi tzvi hersch weinreb) where he said he does not ever look at the old translation, even when they are having trouble finding a good translation for a difficult word.
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