תיאור

For five generations of the Talmudic era, the

great Sages of the Land of Israel flourished

in the Galil. There, like the Sages of Babylonia,

they debated, expounded, and applied the laws

and principles of the Mishnah that were received

at Sinai .The sacred learning of those years

was gathered in the Talmud Yerushalmi – The

Jerusalem Tamud.

They lived with Roman pogroms and persecution – but the flame of Torah burned bright

despite it all. Until about 350 C. E., when brutal

Roman anti-Semitism decimated the Holy Land’s

yeshivos and silenced its voice of Torah.

But the Sages’ teachings live on in the

Talmud Yerushalmi, just as the teachings of

Babylonia live one in the Talmud Bavli – The

Babylonian Talmud.

But while the Sages of Babylonia had another

150 years to redact, clarify and organize the

text of the Babylonian Talmud, Roman persecution in the Holy Land made that impossible.

Thus, the Jerusalem Talmud is exceedingly

difficult, and – despite its great significance –

it has been a closed book to all but select, elite

scholars.

Now, thanks to the outstanding scholars who produced

the classic Schottenstein Edition of Talmud Bavli, the lock is

being removed on yet another treasure-house of Torah Sheb’al

Peh, the Oral Law.

This project has been enthusiastically welcomed and

endorsed by Torah leaders in Israel and America.