Daniel Retter teaching talmud
Daniel Retter teaching talmud
Detail map of Nanuet, New York, United States Overview map of Nanuet, New York, United States

A: Nanuet, New York, United States

Daniel Retter Compiles the First Widely Accepted Index of the Talmud

12/2011

In December 2011 immigration lawyer and Talmudic scholar Daniel Retter compiled the first widely accepted index of the more than 1.8 million word Talmud roughly 1500 years after the Talmud was compiled. Compilation of the index took Retter seven years. Under the title of HaMaTeach, Retter's work was published by Feldheim Publishers, Nanuet, New York, in both Hebrew and English editions. The two volume index has 6,600 topical entries and 27,000 subtopical entries that point students to the treatises and pages of text they are seeking.

The New York Times report on Retter's project does not mention computing, suggesting that Retter may have compiled this index may have compiled this index in a traditional, non-digital manner.

Timeline Themes

Related Entries