The Living Torah

The Living Torah is a 1981 translation of the Torah by Aryeh Kaplan, published by Moznaim. It was and remains a highly popular translation, and was reissued in a Hebrew-English version with haftarot for synagogue use. Kaplan had the following goals for his translation, which were arguably absent from previous English translations: Clear and readable Close the basic meaning (peshat) of the text in many places, but in other places translated to be in accord with post-biblical rabbinic commentary and Jewish codes of law. Faithful to Orthodox Jewish tr ...

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Aryeh Kaplan (1934 - 1983) was a noted rabbi and author, who had a background in both physics and Judaism. He is widely viewed as a prolific and original teacher; his work ranged from studies of the Torah, Talmud and works of mysticism to outreach and philosophy. Aryeh Kaplan - Biography. Rabbi Kaplan was born in the Bronx, New York City, and studied in the Torah Voda'as and Mir Yeshivot in Brooklyn. He then studied at Mir in Jerusalem, and was ordained by some of Israel's forem ...

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Rabbi Kaplan was born in the Bronx, New York City, and studied in the Torah Voda'as and Mir Yeshivot in Brooklyn. He then studied at Mir in Jerusalem, and was ordained by some of Israel's foremost rabbinic authorities including Rabbi Eliezer Yehudah Finkel. He also earned a masters degree in physics. As a graduate student, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan was described in a scientific "Who's Who" as the most promising young physicist in America. Later "he decided to devote his overflowing heart and massive intellect to the writing and ...

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In general, English Bible translation has been less central and not as widespread among Jews as among Christians (the latter having produced dozens of modern translations and versions in English along with sets of initials to distinguish them). This is partially due to the fact that English became the major spoken language among Jews only in the era since the holocaust. Before then, even Jews in English-speaking countries were still part of an immigrant culture to a large extent, which meant that they could either understand the Hebrew Bible ...

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Perhaps the first Orthodox translation into modern English was The Living Torah by Aryeh Kaplan (New York: Moznaim Publishing, 1981 [2nd edition]). It was later supplemented by The Living Nach in the same style (by Yaakov Elman and others) after Kaplan's death. The Living Torah is available online. Though Rabbi Kaplan's translation claims to present a straight translation of the text, it many cases it actually intersperses the translation with later rabbinic commentary and Jewish law. This characteristic is ...

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The translations of the Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) have become the most popular English translations of the Hebrew Bible. JPS has published two such translations. Jewish English Bible translations - Old JPS 1917. The first JPS translation was completed in 1917, and was based on the scholarship of its day; its literary form was consciously based on that of the King James version. The Old JPS translation is used in a number of Orthodox Jewish works published before the 1980s, such as the Pentate ...

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Mesorah Publications is an Orthodox Jewish publisher of Bible translations, rabbinic literature and Jewish prayerbooks. Their Stone Edition of the Chumash (Torah) and Stone Edition of the Tanach (also called the Artscroll Tanakh) have become very popular in the Orthodox Jewish community, and are in use by some non-Orthodox Jews as well. It is considered by many Orthodox Jews to be the best of the English translations. Their translations has been criticised by a few Modern Orthodox scholars, e.g. B. Barry Levy, and by non ...

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