El-Am Talmud, Bava Metzi’a (III Hammaphqid), ed. Rabbi Dr A. Ehrman

Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle, 14 July 1972. The Talmud, Bava Mezi’a (III Hammaphqid), El-Am-Hotza’a Leor Israel, Jerusalem—Tel Aviv, 1969. The El-Am translations and commentaries have justifiably become famous as the best popular introductions to the study of the Talmud. This volume on the third chapter of tractate Bava Mezi’a admirably lives up to the…