Rabbi Dr. Elazar Hurvitz
Professor of Biblical and Talmudic Literature
Yeshiva University


R. Zevi Hirsch Chajes (1805-1855), known as "The Maharatz Chayes," was born in Brody, a town in northeast Galicia. He studied under a number of great scholars of that time, particularly R. Ephraim Zalman Margulies. With his keen intellect and broad knowledge, he was able to produce many works of scientific study of Judaism, faithful to tradition but modern in their organization and subjects. His works include Torat Nevi'im; Darkhei Hora'ah; Imre Binah; Minhat Kena'ot; and glosses to the Talmud that were published in the now-standard Romm-Vilna edition of the Talmud.">
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The Students' Guide through the Talmud 
Author: Rabbeinu Zevi Hirsch Chajes
Publisher: Yashar Books

Translated, edited and critically annotated by Jacob Shachter

Orthodox Orthodox

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Long acknowledged as one of the land­marks in Rabbinic scholarship, The Student's Guide dates from the author's later years and in it he attempts to formulate the nature, extent and authority of tradition.

Like the Talmud itself, this book bears a two-fold character and deals with both the Halachah, the legal aspects of the Talmud, and the Aggadah, the non-legal portions. Presenting his analysis with the experience and insight of a world-renowned talmudic scholar, R. Chajes imparts a detailed history and classification of the Talmud and its underlying oral tradition.

He presents rational explanations for many of the seemingly irrational statements of the Talmud, describing the methodologies utilized and the rationales behind them.

"The commentary of Rabbeinu Zevi Hirsch Chajes that appears in the printed editions of the Talmud Bavli has been widely recognized in the Torah world as one of the basic tools necessary to gain a higher understand of Talmudic sugyot. In addition, his fundamental and specialized essays on the early development of Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash serve until today as a cornerstone for the understanding of the literary, Halachic and Aggadic combination of the early Rabbinic literature..."

Rabbi Dr. Elazar Hurvitz
Professor of Biblical and Talmudic Literature
Yeshiva University


R. Zevi Hirsch Chajes (1805-1855), known as "The Maharatz Chayes," was born in Brody, a town in northeast Galicia. He studied under a number of great scholars of that time, particularly R. Ephraim Zalman Margulies. With his keen intellect and broad knowledge, he was able to produce many works of scientific study of Judaism, faithful to tradition but modern in their organization and subjects. His works include Torat Nevi'im; Darkhei Hora'ah; Imre Binah; Minhat Kena'ot; and glosses to the Talmud that were published in the now-standard Romm-Vilna edition of the Talmud.
 
 
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