ArtScroll’s Anniversary Gift: 34% off all Talmud and Mishnah volumes!

Posted on January 25, 2010 by goldys

To mark the 34th anniversary of the founding of ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications, we are presenting our devoted readers with a very special anniversary gift: 34% off our Talmud and Mishnah volumes – plus free shipping on all Talmud Bavli sets! Here’s a closer look at the books included in this limited time sale:

The Schottenstein Edition Talmud Bavli: It’s been twenty years since the first volume of the Schottenstein Edition Talmud Bavli was published. It was a landmark in the history of Torah learning, the beginning of perhaps the greatest achievement in the history of English-language Judaica. With its flowing, elucidated translation, explanatory notes, exceptional clarity and accuracy, introductions to the tractates and individual topics, vowelized texts, and diagrams and tables, the Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud has gained world-wide praise and acceptance. It is transforming the lives of tens of thousands of people who use it to make Talmud study a vital part of their day.

The Schottenstein English Edition Talmud, in the full-size and daf yomi size editions, are available at 34% off the list price. And here’s a once-in-a-lifetime offer:  Get the complete full-size 73-volume set for $1,980 – a savings of over $1,000 off the list price. The more compact 73-volume daf yomi set is available for $1,485, a savings of over $750. As an added bonus, shipping on these 73-volume sets is absolutely free anywhere in the USA!

Schottenstein Hebrew Talmud Bavli: Save 34% off these popular volumes, designed for those who want the standard of excellence of the Schottenstein Edition Talmud, but prefer to study in Hebrew.
 
Schottenstein Talmud Yerushalmi (English and Hebrew): For over 1600 years, the Talmud Yerushalmi was the province of great scholars and gedolim, but a closed book for every one else. Now this extraordinary translation and elucidation has brought the wisdom of the Yerushalmi to thousands who have begun its study. This groundbreaking work is available in both Hebrew and English versions, at a sale price of 34% off the list price.

ArtScroll Mishnah with the Yad Avraham Commentary: A major series that includes clear translation, diagrams and illustrations, and the phenomenal Yad Avraham commentary, this deserves an important place in every Torah library. Now available at – you guessed it – 34% off the list price.

The ArtScroll 34th anniversary sale is the perfect opportunity to purchase volumes of the Talmud and Mishnah – or, even better, the entire set! — for yourself, your synagogue, or as an unforgettable gift.  Now through 02/25/2010.

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Nachum Segal Explores the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation and More with Michael Rothschild

Posted on January 19, 2010 by goldys


Nachum interviewed Michael Rothschild, Founder of the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation about the Foundation and his new book “The Family Lesson a Day.” The CCHF started two decades ago and has been a major influence on the way countless Jews approach their speech and each other.  Like the stunningly successful A Lesson A Day, which helped bring the importance of shemiras halashon to the general public, The Family Lesson a Day adapts the teachings of the Sefer Chofetz Chaim, based on the daily learning schedule created by the legendary Manchester Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yehuda Zev Segal zt’l. Specifically crafted for family use, each daily lesson includes true stories and delightful parables that bring the laws of proper speech to life. Each day’s lesson also contains an inspiring one sentence excerpt from the Chofetz Chaim’s Sefer Shemiras HaLashon that conveys the beauty and importance of proper speech. The Family Lesson a Day is down-to-earth, informative, and inspiring. It will be appreciated by young and old, parent and child. It can be read and discussed at home, at the dinner table, or in the classroom.  Click here to listen.

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From Radin to Your Dining Room: The Family Lesson a Day

Posted on January 11, 2010 by goldys

The shemiras halashon revolution began in the town of Radin, with the writings of Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan, zt’l: Sefer Chofetz Chaim and Sefer Shemiras HaLashon. Decades later, the Manchester Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yehuda Zev Segal zt’l, suggested that his talmidim study the laws of shemiras halashon, of guarding one’s tongue from forbidden speech, on a daily basis, following a set calendar. This daily cycle of study – which Rav Segal called “my passport to olam haba” – became accepted throughout many yeshivas.

Then, in 1989, with the inspiration and active participation of Rav Segal, the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation was founded. Working together with ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications, they launched the daily study of these laws in hundreds of thousands of homes through the bestselling books, A Lesson a Day and Chofetz Chaim: A Daily Companion.

And now – just in time for the new cycle of shemiras halashon study, which begins on Rosh Chodesh Shevat (January 16), comes the next step in the revolution: The Family Lesson a Day.

Rabbi Shimon Finkelman, coauthor (with Rabbi Yitzchak Berkowitz) of A Lesson a Day, speaks of his newest book, The Family Lesson a Day: “The past few summers in Camp Agudah I delivered a daily fifteen minute shiur in Sefer Chofetz Chaim for senior campers and staff. I endeavored to spice each lesson with stories and parables that bring the laws to life and show their relevance today. I thought a book of this style would be appreciated by all ages, and I embarked on the project. The book follows Rav Segal’s calendar. Each lesson is based on Sefer Chofetz Chaim, with a sidebar that has an inspirational excerpt from Sefer Shemiras HaLashon.”

 A CCHF staffer explains the goals of this newest work. “We wanted a book that would appeal to youngsters, to teens, and to the oldest members of the family. One with stories to inspire, explain, and enlighten, so that a parent could easily read it together with the children at a supper table. What Daf Yomi study is for men – shemiras halashon study is for families. This is the easiest way to bring the blessing of shemiras halashon to the family.”

Tens of thousands have already felt those blessings – in improved relationships, greater shalom bayis, and in the abundant berachos promised to those who are careful in their speech. Now the entire family can together bring these blessings into the home, with The Family Lesson a Day.

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Nachum speaks with Rabbi Shimshon Sherer about his brand new book: Rabbi Sherer

Posted on December 3, 2009 by goldys

Nachum speaks with Rabbi Shimshon Sherer about his brand new book: Rabbi Sherer . Click here to listen to the full show.

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The Public and the Private Man: Rabbi Sherer: The paramount Torah spokesman of our era

Posted on November 16, 2009 by goldys

Last week, when the biography of Rabbi Moshe Sherer went to press, the excitement in the ArtScroll office was palpable. Many ArtScroll staffers had personally known Rabbi Sherer, who led Agudath Israel of America for over four decades, and who was arguably the most effective Jewish lay leader of his time. They had experienced firsthand his warmth and caring; they had seen his rock-like dedication to the principles of emunas chachamim and selfless service to the Jewish people, as well as his wisdom.
Capturing both the achievements and the personality of a man as talented, energetic, and multi-faceted as Rabbi Sherer was a challenge – and a pleasure, says author Yonoson Rosenblum, biographer of such luminaries as Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler, Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, and Reb Elimelech Gavriel (Mike)  Tress. Reb Yonoson interviewed over 100 people before beginning to write. He spent hours poring over Rabbi Sherer’s thousands of letters, memos, and notes, as well as boxes of transcripts of the “aides-memoire” that he dictated at the end of every event-filled day. “Rabbi Sherer had an eye to the future and a sense of history – a biographer’s delight,” says Yonoson.

Rabbi Sherer was at home in many worlds. He was the servant and confidant of great Torah sages and a friend and adviser of people in the highest echelons of power, but he was attentive to the needs of the humblest Jew. Much that we take for granted today was shepherded by him through Congress and the courts. Even more: He rescued Torah life from the American melting pot, and helped build it into the vibrant and growing entity of today.
In this beautifully crafted biography we learn about both the public and private Rabbi Sherer. We meet those who inspired him and shaped him: his mother; his mentor, Mike Tress; and two generations of gedolei hador. We get an inside look at governors, mayors, and legislators — even Presidents. We go behind the scenes of the legal battles to strengthen Torah life and secret activities to rescue Jews in danger.

This is a book of history, but it is much more; it is a life-transforming work. As Yonoson Rosenblum says, “No one can read this book and not know what his responsibility is to each and every person, and each and every Jew, that he meets.”

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Children’s literature taken to a new level!

Posted on November 10, 2009 by goldys

Nachum Segal and Shmuel Blitz speak about the newly released Search for the Stones. Click  here to listen.

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