Community Magazine March 2014

ADAR II 5774 MARCH 2014 33 preparation for the next stage, over 50 of Jerusalem’s elite kollel students have been added to the Kedem staff, all of whom are experienced experts in the field of editing Torah source material. They will be responsible for preparing tens of thousands of footnotes and presenting the material in a clear, readable format. This includes dividing the text of the commentaries into paragraphs, adding punctuation, eliminating errors, completing missing text, and merging various existing editions into a single body of text. The Kedem Institute has enlisted the top editors from the ranks of Sephardic scholars, who are all well versed in the special style and vernacular used by the Sephardic sages, their poetic figures of speech and rich forms of expression, to carefully review the final product before it goes to print. shas of the future What makes this publication so special is that all this material will be arranged on the page of Gemara so it could be easily studied as one learns the text of the Gemara. The material will be divided into different sections and properly organized around the page, together with the classic commentaries of Rashi and Tosafot. This will enable students and scholars of all levels and backgrounds to easily research every topic discussed on any given page in the Talmud in the vast corpus of Sephardic Talmudic literature, brought together for the first time in history onto one page. Every question and answer relating to every page of Gemara will be right there in front of the student’s eyes, including questions and answers from esoteric sources and rare manuscripts which he would never have otherwise seen. Shas Kedem is, without doubt, the “Shas of the future.” Whether it’s in the synagogue, in yeshivah, in kollel, in a daily Daf Yomi class, in the dining room or in the office, anyone who opens up a volume of Shas Kedem has centuries’ worth of Sephardic scholarship right there in front of him.All the brilliance of the Sephardic scholarly tradition is brought together on a single page, in a clear, accessible format. Thanks to the groundbreaking work of Oz V’Hadar publishers and the Kedem Institute, thousands of luminous insights, questions, answers and commentaries that would otherwise remain unknown are now available to students of all levels. And these texts have all been corrected, typeset and annotated to ensure the most rewarding and enriching learning experience possible. Oz V’Hadar recently released the first volume of its impressive “Shas Kedem –ATreasury of Geonei Sepharad,” on Masechet Makot. Within days of its appearance on the bookshelves, the books were gone. Additional volumes are slated for release in the coming weeks. And as students and scholars eagerly await this historic publication, we can only wonder, why did no one think of this before? And how was the Gemara ever studied without this? PESACH 2014 APRIL 14 - APRIL 23 1 0 D A Y S A L L I N C L U S I V E njoy our two fabulous resorts, Cheribourg Suite & Spa and Manoir des Sables Golf Resort at the bottom of Mont Orford, Magog, Quebec, just 50 minutes from the U.S border E Simply Royal. LUXURIOUSACCOMMODATIONS IN A 4 STAR HOTEL GOURMET STRICTLY GLATT KOSHER MEALS UNDER KSR INTERCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST CHOLOV YISROEL NON KITNIOT, NON GEBROKTS HAND MATZA SHMURA FOR ENTIRE HOLIDAY REFRESHMENT LOUNGE ASHKENAZ & SEPHARDIC MINYAN WITH CANTOR BOX LUNCHES; AVAILABLE FOR CHOL HAMOED EXCURSIONS ENJOY: BARBEQUES, SWEET TABLE, ELABORATE COCKTAILS, ICE CREAM FESTIVALS TROPICAL DRINKS, OPEN BAR, FINE WINES ALL DAY “SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE” PROGRAMMING SHIURIM, LECTURES, DAF YOMI ENTIRE HOTEL KOSHER L’PESACH WWW.ROYALCLUBK.COM 514-515-5507 • 514-515-4600 • 450-978-0017 Royal Club K Passover Vacation