Adin Steinsaltz
1937–2020 (age 83)
Biography
Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (Hebrew: עדין אבן-ישראל שטיינזלץ; 11 July 1937 – 7 August 2020) was an Israeli Chabad rabbi, teacher, philosopher, social critic, author, translator and publisher.
Steinsaltz originally published The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning. It was subsequently translated into English, French, Russian, and Spanish. Beginning in 1989, Steinsaltz published several tractates in Hebrew and English of the Babylonian (Bavli) Talmud in an English-Hebrew edition. The first volume of a new English-Hebrew edition, the Koren Talmud Bavli, was released in May 2012, and has since been brought to completion.
Steinsaltz was a recipient of the Israel Prize for Jewish Studies (1988), the President's Medal (2012), and the Yakir Yerushalayim prize (2017).
Steinsaltz died in Jerusalem on 7 August 2020 from acute pneumonia.