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Translated and annotated by Eliyahu Munk
Eliyahu Munk is one of the foremost translators of Torah works in our time. Born in Frankfurt on Maine, Germany, he studied at Gateshead Yeshiva in England and was a teacher in Toronto, Canada for almost 30 years. Rabbi Munk has given English speakers access to some of the most important Torah commentaries ever written through his translation and annotation work.

Or Hachayim is considered a classic commentary. The original text of this commentary is found in most editions of Mikraot Gedolot. This translation gives English speakers access to this important work.

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7 Volume Set
The Torah Commentary of Rabbi Bachya Ben Asher was the first to be based on the four principles denoted by the letters pardes, “Peshat, Remez, Drush, Sod,” 1) the plain text, 2) a deeper, more philosophical approach to the text; 3) homiletical approach to the text; and 4) a mystical kabbalistic interpretation of the text. Rabbi Bachya introduces each of the chapters of the book with an introduction for the reader as to what they are about to experience, as well as providing thought provoking questions along the way.
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by Yaakov ben Rabbeinu Asher
4 vol. set
 The Tur on the Torah is an original translation into English of the Torah commentary of Rabbi Yaakov ben Rabbeinu Asher (R'osh). This 4 volume work is beautifully translated by Rabbi Eliyahu Munk and gives English speakers access to the author's greatest exegetical work.

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by Samuel David Luzzatto
4 vol. set
 Luzzatto's Torah commentary presents the reader with the work of an accomplished and highly respected Bible Commentator of the 19th century, a leading Bible scholar at the university of Padua, who tackled the well worn theories of Bible critics who deny the Divinity of the Torah, both Gentile and Jewish. Luzzatto's credentials as an expert in all the languages that could have had an influence on the text of the Torah are beyond question. His highlighting the moral superiority of the Torah to any competing classic work on morality is most refreshing.

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by Rabbi Avraham Saba
5 vol. set
 
Rabbi Avraham Sabba was born in Castile in 1440 and spent the first 50 years of his life in parts of Spain. He wrote many books, among them the Torah commentary Tzror Hamor. His genius is evident from the manner in which he selects hundreds of quotations from the Zohar, the most famous mystical text, in which he demonstrates that the author of the Zohar is capable of being understood by the average Jew, and that the Zohar is helpful in understanding many difficult passages in the Torah.

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4 vol. set
 
The selection of these four authors was prompted by the desire to acquaint the reader with exegesis who concentrate in the main on the peshat, the meaning of the text as it strikes the reader at the first cursory perusal of the text. Rabbeinu Chananel was the head of the Yeshiva in Kairuan.Rabbi Sh'muel ben Meir (Rash'bam) was one of the grandsons of Rashi. Rabbi David Kimchi (R'dak) wrote commentary on the Tanach, and is well known for his major work dealing with grammar of the Holy Tongue, Sefer Hashorashim.Rabbi Ovadiah Seforno served as the Rabbi of Rome and was a physician.

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by Rabbi Chizkiyahu ben Rabbi Manoach
4 vol. set

Chizkiyahu Ben Rabbi Manoach wrote Chizkuni in honor of his father. Printed in Venice in 1525. He focuses primarily on Rashi, quoting 20 other commentators.

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by Rabbi Moshe ben Chaim Alshich
3 vol. set
The author, Rabbi Moshe ben Chayim Alshich (hakadosh), was born in Adrianople in 1508 and died in Damascus about the year 1600. He was Rabbi in Safed and Damascus, ordained by Rabbi Joseph Karo. His Torah commentary is based on sermons delivered throughout his long career. He also wrote commentaries on almost the entire Bible. Rabbi Moshe emphasises first and foremost the Mussar, the moral ethical lessons to be derived from the Torah.

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by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev
3 vol. set
This classic work by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev brings his commentary on each of the weekly Torah portions. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was known for his love for the Jewish people and was a leader in the Chasidic world of the second half of the 18th Century.
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By Yitzchak Arama
2 vol. set

The commentary in this set covers the major philosophical problems, the relationship between the Torah and man-made philosophy, the conflict between faith & reason, man's free will, and God's knowledge of the future. Rabbi Arama makes the important point that the Torah takes precedence when in conflict with human reasoning.
 
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