Eight volumes of the Talmud, in an English version requiring the services of 30 translators, working for five years, have just been published here. The new volumes are on the subject of women.
“The rabbis,” says the publisher, “discuss the relationship of the sexes with that same minute thoroughness which characterizes all Talmudic argument. They realized that the obligation of marriage was the preservation of the human race, but they recognized, too, that there were grounds for dissolution when the bands chafed.”
The editor of the translation is Rabbi I. Epstein. The translators came from the United States and Palestine, as well as various parts of England. Another eight volumes remain to be translated.
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