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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...
Last week in 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...
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