Adin Steinsaltz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Adin Steinsaltz

Israeli rabbi and educator

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1937

Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel

Profession: writer, rabbi, translator, educator

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (Hebrew: ???? ????????) or Adin Even Yisrael (???? ??? ?????) (born 1937) is a teacher, philosopher, social critic, and spiritual mentor, who has been hailed by Time magazine as a "once-in-a-millennium scholar".
He has devoted his life to making the Talmud accessible to all Jews.
Originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, his Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud has also been 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, with thirteen tractates in print by July 2014.
New volumes are being released following the Daf Yomi cycle.