“At the risk of invoking groans, I sincerely mean it when I say that the accompanying written words mean more than any gift”
Many thanks for your delightful article about Rabbi Mandelbaum. You only fleetingly mention his sefer Daf al Hadaf. I can say that as a daf yomi maggid shiur with an office day job, the sefer Daf al Hadaf was a spiritual lifeline during my daf yomi shiur-giving days.
With no time to look at hundreds of seforim, the Daf al Hadaf was one of the three go-to-seforim I had (the others were Margolias HaShas on Agadatta and Rav Zilberstein’s Chashukei Chemed). It has a wonderful bekius, and I ended up buying each volume as they came out, with 26 in total, including the Hadran volume and Mafteach. Indeed, one of my chevreh went personally to pick up a volume from Rav Mandelbaum, who was most gracious. The volumes are still lent out to maggidei shiur on a regular basis.
You mention he was involved in some of the masechtos. I can only say that his name is printed in the front of every volume of the entire set, so whether his humility has reduced his admitted involvement I do not know. The other main contributors were Rav Avrohom Noach Klein a”h, who was niftar just a month after the series finished, and Rav Yehoshua Lefkovitz.
Rabbi Mandelbaum was also involved in Yerushalmi, in line with the Lev Simchah’s promotion of Yerushalmi.
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