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While this Talmud edition was the first of its kind to give an unedited and comprehensive translation of the Talmud, with the advent of the Schottstein Artscroll edition of the Talmud, these volumes are all but extinct and are not recommended to study from for the following reasons which I personally can say turned me off from studying Talmud in my youth: 1)Archaic english usage. Since it was made in England, most US students of the Talmud had to crack their brains to figure out what these academic scholars were trying to tell us. 2)No explanations or cross references to other sources or commentaries. When these were given they didn't help much due to their lack of expansion. 3)Talmudic concepts were not explained. You had to be a scholar yourself to know the concepts and if so, you didn't use these editions in the first place! Despite all of the above reasons these volumes DID help me with the translations of the Aramaic, the rest I had to figure out myself. Most of the time I was not able to follow the english since I lacked the knowledge in following the ins and outs of the order of the Amoraim and their presentations. There was no attempt on the part of the translators to help in sorting out the complicated Talmudic discourses. For all of the above reasons -and I am sure there are others that people can think above- I would not buy this edition anymore, but perhaps relegate to an honorable place on my bookshelf, but only if I had the roon :) Wanna REALLY understand the Talmud? I recommend instead the Artscroll or Steinsaltz series. They have all the things that the Soncino version lacked AND MORE! Please vote on this guide and all the others I've writtten. It really is appreciated!Read full review
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