The YU Lamdan
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From the editor, Ephraim Meth, 1(1):
In our nation’s earliest years, we were forbidden to publicly
disseminate halakhah and lomdus through writing.
Some Rishonim maintain that we were even forbidden
from recording oral Torah thoughts for personal reference.
R. Yehudah haNasi revoked both of these prohibitions.
Nowadays, we may write Torah thoughts for our
own growth, and for the public’s pleasure.
Similarly, our publication has a dual purpose: first, to
motivate and train its writers to formulate Torah thoughts
clearly, concisely, and powerfully; second, to provide its
audience with high-quality Torah thoughts via the medium
of high-quality writing.
Historically, our gedolim have demanded that only
first-rate Torah thoughts be committed to writing. The
Rambam wrote that one should review an essay’s content
one thousand times before committing it to writing.
Rav Ashi wrote two drafts of Shas; Rashi’s rough drafts
are published alongside his final drafts in some masechtos;
the Tosfos Rid wrote four drafts of his commentary,
as did Rav Shach in our generation. When the Ketzos
realized that some novellae he was ready to publish had
already been printed by R. Yonason Eybeschutz, he deleted
them from his manuscript to eliminate redundancy.
The Chofetz Chaim checked every copy of his books for
typographical errors. Our gedolim have long supported
augmenting the Torah-writing skills of budding talmidei
chachamim; we hope and pray that our publication lives
up to their standards.
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v 1 - v 3 2012 - 2014
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v 4 no. 2 Dec. 2014 (5775)
v 5 no. 1 - v 5 no. 2 Dec. 2015 - March 2016
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