Kesser Shem Tov Translate
Faithful English, set beside the original. Every word of the lashon hakodesh stays on the page, vocalized, so no door stays closed to the learner who cannot yet read it alone.
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כֶּתֶר שֵׁם טוֹב
כֶּתֶר שֵׁם טוֹב עוֹלֶה עַל גַּבֵּיהֶן
We bring to the Jewish people the classic seforim of our masters that have never been translated or elucidated — unlocking, for this generation and every one after it, the wellsprings hidden in the holy works of our heritage.
This is Kesser Shem Tov
Seforim that have never been opened in English. The original lashon hakodesh, a faithful translation, and a running elucidation — printed to last, and dedicated in your name.
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- volumes in print
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- seforim awaiting a patron
Kesser Shem Tov Elucidate
A running commentary, not a gloss. The classic mefarshim are carried along with the text — the Radal, Par Echad, and the poskim — so the depth of a passage opens as you read it.
Kesser Shem Tov Endure
Printed to last, and inscribed. Sewn hardcover editions, set in type that will still be read in fifty years, carrying the name of the family who made the sefer possible.
In print
Nine works. Twenty volumes. Each one in print and shipping, with a sample of each to enjoy.
אור תורה
Or Torah
The Maggid of Mezeritch on Parshas HaShavua
The teachings of R’ Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezeritch — successor of the Baal Shem Tov and teacher of the Alter Rebbe — on the whole Chumash, opened in English for the first time. The sefer the Rebbe Rashab kept in his desk drawer beside the Tanya: fully vocalized Hebrew, a phrase-by-phrase intralinear translation, and an elucidation that names the sources and traces the Kabbalistic framework of every teaching.
כתר שם טוב
Kesser Shem Tov
The Collected Teachings of the Baal Shem Tov
The sefer this house is named for. The Baal Shem Tov wrote nothing himself; his teachings survived in the writings of his disciples, and from them the Kesser Shem Tov — the Crown of the Good Name — was gathered and first printed in Zalkevo in 1794, the earliest published collection of his Torah. Its 105 teachings come here in fully vocalized Hebrew with a phrase-by-phrase translation and a running elucidation that names the sources and traces the Kabbalistic framework of each one, with a summary at the head of every teaching and the Kehot critical-edition variants noted throughout. The companion volume to Or Torah, in the same format and design.
פרקי דרבי אליעזר
Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer
The Ratner Family Edition
The complete Midrash in vocalized Hebrew with a flowing interlinear English elucidation, the Beur HaRadal and Par Echad commentaries, and a layer of Chassidic illumination drawn from the Rebbeim. Twelve hundred years of learning, opened.
מזמור שיר חנוכת הבית
Mizmor Shir Chanukas HaBayis
The Zwelling Family Edition
The two final maamarim of Likkutei Torah, delivered by the Alter Rebbe in Liadi and at the chanukas habayis of R’ Pinchas Reizes in Shklov — the Hebrew of the Zhitomir 5626 printing beside a phrase-by-phrase elucidated translation, with the story behind each discourse and a full marei mekomos apparatus.
תמצית רש״י
Tamtzis Rashi
Every Rashi on Chumash
The bottom line of every Rashi on the Chumash in clear English, with the sources behind each comment — the whole of Rashi, digested for the learner who wants the answer before the argument.
תמצית ערוך השולחן
Tamtzis Aruch HaShulchan
Orach Chaim · Choshen Mishpat · Yoreh De’ah · Even HaEzer
The practical ruling of the Aruch HaShulchan, distilled siman by siman into plain English — seven volumes covering daily conduct and prayer, Shabbos and the festivals, monetary law, kashrus, taharah, the laws of mourning, and the whole of Even HaEzer.
ערוך השולחן · הלכות איסור והיתר
Aruch HaShulchan · Issur v’Heter
The Kornitzer Family Edition
The Aruch HaShulchan on kashrus, elucidated in full across three volumes — simanim 87 to 122, from the laws of meat and milk through ta’aroves to the foods of non-Jews and the kashering of vessels. Vocalized Hebrew with an interlinear translation, over eleven hundred halachah boxes — each one taking up a single practical question and naming the authority who answers it, and the competing view wherever it changes what a reader may do: the Shach and the Taz, the Pri Megadim, Pri Chadash and Chavas Daas, the Chochmas Adam and the Yad Yehuda, the Yam Shel Shlomo, and the piskei dinim of the Alter Rebbe — and the Tamtzis, a practical summary, closing every siman.
ערוך השולחן · תשרי
Aruch HaShulchan · The Days of Awe & Sukkos
The Sztokfisz Edition
The whole of Tishrei across four volumes — simanim 581 to 669, one Yom Tov to a volume: Elul, Selichos and Rosh HaShanah; Yom Kippur from erev to Ne’ilah; the building of the sukkah and dwelling in it; and the four species through Simchas Torah. Vocalized Hebrew with an interlinear translation, 549 Halachic Divergences boxes setting the ruling beside the Mishnah Berurah and Shulchan Aruch HaRav, and — new in this edition — 854 practical-halachah boxes digested from the Piskei Teshuvos, each ruling cited to the sefer it comes from: the Kaf HaChaim and the Mateh Efraim, the Bikkurei Yaakov on lulav and sukkah, the Chazon Ish, the Igros Moshe of R’ Moshe Feinstein, R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, the Shevet HaLevi, the Minchas Yitzchak and the Yabia Omer. The Tamtzis Aruch HaShulchan digest closes every siman with the dinim in brief.
ערוך השולחן · פסח
Aruch HaShulchan · Pesach
Nissan and chametz · matzah and Erev Pesach · the Seder, Sefirah and Shavuos
Pesach entire across three volumes — simanim 429 to 494, from the month of Nissan and the laws of chametz, through the baking of matzah and the kashering of a kitchen, to the Seder night, Sefiras HaOmer and Shavuos. Vocalized Hebrew with an interlinear translation, 463 Halachic Divergences boxes set against the Mishnah Berurah and Shulchan Aruch HaRav, and 728 practical-halachah boxes digested from the Piskei Teshuvos — the Chok Yaakov and the Pri Megadim, the Kaf HaChaim, the Chazon Ish, the Igros Moshe, the Minchas Yitzchak, the Shevet HaLevi, the Teshuvos V’Hanhagos and the Yabia Omer — with 28 pearls from the Rebbe’s Haggadah and the Tamtzis digest closing every siman. Volume 1 is shipping; volumes 2 and 3 appear here as they go live.
Awaiting a patron
A sefer is a legacy that learns on forever. Each of these is ready to be brought to light, and waits for the one whose name it will carry.
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דרך אמונה
Derech Emunah
R’ Meir ibn Gabbai · 1560
The classic reply to ten questions on the foundations of Kabbalah — reprinted at the Rebbe’s word the day after Didan Notzach. Complete at 207 pages.
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מדרש תהלים
Midrash Tehillim
Shocher Tov · the Midrash on Psalms
What the Sages heard inside the Tehillim every Jew says — with a layer of Chassidic light from the Rebbeim. The pilot volume is typeset.
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ערוך השולחן · אבילות
Aruch HaShulchan · Aveilus
R’ Yechiel Michel Epstein · YD 335–403
The complete laws of mourning — all 69 simanim elucidated, with the Gesher HaChaim, R’ Moshe Feinstein, and the poskim of our day. Over 1,000 pages, ready.
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בעל שם טוב על התורה
Baal Shem Tov al HaTorah
R’ Yisrael Baal Shem Tov · gathered by R’ Shimon Menachem Mendel of Gavartchov, Lodz 1938
The Baal Shem Tov’s teachings drawn out of his disciples’ sefarim and set on the weekly parashah — never in English. A whole parashah is typeset.
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אותיות דרבי עקיבא
Otiot d’Rabbi Akiva
Attributed to the Tanna Rabbi Akiva
The ancient Midrash on the twenty-two letters of the Aleph-Beis — cited by the Ramban and the Or Zarua, never before in English.
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