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NEWS
Poseiach Shaar on Maseches Rosh Hashonoh
by Rabbi Nosson Zeev Grossman
Reviewed by Yated Ne'eman Staff
This present cycle of the Daf Hayomi study is characterized
by the new adherents who have joined the wide circle of Daf
devotees. Already by the end of the previous cycle, the
phenomenon of new members, avreichim and bnei
Torah, joining the ranks of Daf students, was pronounced.
Kollelim dedicated to the study of the Daf in depth were
created at that time. This generation has also been blessed
with many baalebatim who follow the strict
daily/nightly regimen of the Daf Hayomi. Not simple laymen,
these are professionals with a yeshivishe background and a
yeshivishe approach to study, who seek to understand the Daf
in depth.
A new work which was just published this week in Eretz
Yisroel, and which will shortly be available in all
seforim stores throughout the U.S. and Europe, sheds
new light on the pages of maseches Rosh Hashonoh,
which will soon be current in the Daf Yomi cycle.
This new work, Poseiach Shaar on Maseches Rosh
Hashonoh, in Hebrew, written by Rabbi Nosson Zev Grossman
of Jerusalem (who is an editor of the Hebrew Yated
Ne'eman and familiar to readers by virtue of his
hashkofoh essays on topical matters), includes a
comprehensive amplification of the various sugyos and
topics dealt with in this tractate, daf by daf,
from the first to the last. Every single sugya is
explained according to the Rishonim, who explicate the give-
and-take (shakla vetarya) in the gemora, while
presenting the various questions and comments of the
Acharonim, as well as the chakiroh challenges, and the
halachic implications which illuminate the overall sugya.
Essentially, whoever studies this tractate and refers to the
over 1,000 pages of this monumental work, will get an all-
inclusive picture of all aspects of each sugya, the
steps taken in explaining the subjects being dealt with, via
an analysis of the Rishonim commentaries and those
challenging them, with each approach fully presented very
clearly. The author also interjects his own personal insights
by way of elucidating comments and scholarly conjectures,
while stressing in his introduction that he does not presume
to be definitive, but that whatever is written is meant to be
food for thought to stimulate the mind and to point out
possible approaches to each sugya and the means of
understanding it.
Each person, however, is invited to glean the maximum of
benefit from the prodigious toil which has been invested in
clarifying each respective sugya, and to regard the
thoughts presented in Poseiach Shaar as a means to
delve all the more deeply into those various subjects. This
work's lomdishe approach is evident in the fact that
each topic is analyzed with the Talmudic tools
prevalent in our yeshivos, while the aggadeto parts
take on a new form through original scholarly-lomdishe
explanations.
Two years ago, when the author published his first such work,
Poseiach Shaar on Maseches Brochos, he received the
enthusiastic blessings of Maran HaRav Yosef Shalom Eliashiv
and Maran HaRav Shmuel Auerbach. This new work, in addition,
has gained the fervent blessing of Maran HaRav Shmuel
Birnbaum, rosh yeshivas Mir, who was effusive in his
admiration of the work and its author.
This work, which has already made its debut in Eretz
Yisroel, will assist the many who seek to study
maseches Rosh Hashonoh in depth, as well as those who
do not have at their disposal the many hours which are
required to fully illuminate and understand each sugya
with its accompanying Rishonim and Acharonim commentaries.
All will find this work to be compiled, organized and
presented in a lucid, approachable manner to assist the study
and understanding of the maseches in a true
yeshivishe, in-depth manner.
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