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When Menachem Kasher was a boy of 15 in Warsaw, he was already writing articles on Hebrew scholarship. After he became a rabbi (at 18), he began collecting ancient and medieval manuscripts of the Jewish sacred scrolls. In 1927 he brought out the first volume of the Torah Shelemah (the complete Torah), a collection of the five books of Moses, the Jewish "Written Law," as well as the 2,000 years of Rabbinic commentaries on them, including the Talmud, or "Oral...
Written in Hebrew, it began a series which was praised as the first complete collection of Rabbinic literature ever undertaken. Other volumes followed. To date, 15 (out of 35) have appeared...
...Manhattan, Rabbi Kasher took the wraps off a new project, an English translation of the Torah Shelemah. The first volume, which covers only the first chapter of Genesis, is being put on sale this month (price: $10). The others will appear as soon as the volumes of the Hebrew Torah Shelemah can be translated. With his project now underwritten by a committee of U.S. Jewish laymen, Rabbi Kasher, 57, works 16-hour days in his Manhattan study to get new volumes ready, and he is helped by a corps of assistants in Israel and New York. But finishing the Torah...
Forgotten in the enthusiasm was the fact that Einstein, though sympathetic to Israel, had never been an ardent Zionist; he believed in a bi-nationalism that meant "friendly and fruitful coexistence with the Arabs." He does not even know Hebrew, official language of the new state...
...Weizmann of Motol. Russia, son of Osher the timber merchant and Rachel, stood before the Knesset in Jerusalem, taking the oath of office as Israel's first President in 2,000 years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...