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The Torah is longer and wider than the sea. And although there are seventy facets to the Torah – including Halachah, Aggadah, Pshat, Drash, Remez, Sod - the most important of all of them is Halachah, as Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan of Radin, the Chaftz Chayim, wrote in his introduction to Mishnah Berurah that although the Mitzvah of studying Torah is fulfilled through any way of Torah study including laws of the Temple and Taharot, nonetheless, most of what one should learn is that which is halacha.
The monumental project - Talmudic Encyclopedia – was founded by Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan and Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin close to 75 years ago. This is a unique work that includes all Talmudic matters of halachah in a precise and reliable presentation, starting from the Bible and the Talmuds, through rabbinic literature from the Geonim to the current poskim.
To date, 52 volumes of the Talmudic Encyclopedia have been published, including over 1500 entries, which are about half the estimated entries.
