Sha'arei Torat Bavel

Sha’arei Torat Bavel is an early 20th-century commentary on the Babylonian Talmud by Lithuanian scholar Rabbi Zev Wolf Rabinowitz. The work includes traditional rabbinic commentary, incorporating and discussing the positions of earlier commentators and insights from contemporary works on science and medicine when relevant topics are addressed in the Talmud. In the work’s commentary on aggadic sections of the Talmud, Rabinowitz incorporates philosophical and ethical discussions and expresses love for the people and land of Israel. Sha’arei Torat Bavel was published by the author’s son, Yitzchak Rabinowitz, and edited by Professor Rabbi Professor Ezra Tzion Melamed.