On Sept. 1, the day that Israeli students returned to school after summer vacation, the Jerusalem-based Koren Publishers aptly released The Koren Shalem Humash by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, billed as “his greatest work.”

Sacks’s magnum opus, whose full title is The Koren Shalem Humash With Rashi and Onkelos: Translation and Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (The Magerman Edition), features the legendary former British chief rabbi’s translation of all five books of Moses presented in plain, readable English.

Sadly, Sacks was unable to complete the mission before his death on Nov. 7, 2020, at the age of 72. The new Humash was painstakingly collated posthumously by a group of scholars who also sifted through 40 years of the rabbi’s books, essays, lectures and media appearances to find

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