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Parshat Pekudei (Shmot 38:21) begins with the words:
These are the accounts of the Mishkan (Tabernacle), the Mishkan of Testimony that was drawn up by Moshe’s order…
Midrash Tanchuma Pekudei 7 asks the question: Why did Moshe render account? God trusted him as it says in Bamidbar 12:7 “He is trusted in all My house.” Notwithstanding Moshe rendered account! But this was because the scorners of his time gossiped about him…What did they say? They looked at his back and said to one another: What a neck! What legs! Eats of that which is ours and drinks that which is ours! His fellow would reply: Fool! A man who is in charge of the work of the Mishkan, talents of silver, talent
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There are certain books that have served as the lynchpin of any Jewish library; a siddur and the Talmud are of course among them but, until now, generations of Torah commentaries have only been available in multiple volumes and many are yet to be translated into English. Indeed, the most common anthology of commentaries, the classic Mikraot Gedolot, provides commentaries only of the Medieval Period (Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Rashbam, Ralbag Seforno, etc.) â just a small slice of the corpus of Jewish commentators and require a certain level of analytical skill to full grasp. But now The Koren Mikraot HaDorot offers a broader scope of the commentaries spanning 2,000 years from the ancient times to modernity with an innovative layout and all new translation.
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A page of the Koren Mikraot Hadorot with Rashi.
It is not possible to overestimate the work of Koren publishers during the last years: The new Koren siddur, the Steinsaltz Talmud, the Steinsaltz Ḥumash and many other (influential) books and publications. Not to mention the accuracy of the Koren Tanakh.