The Practical Talmud Dictionary (English and Hebrew Edition)

I returned this book. The font is so small that it is impossible to read

If you need a more portable dictionary than some of the heavier tomes out there, this will do the trick. But it does not hold a candle to Jastrow or Sokoloff when it comes to comprehensive treatments of Talmudic language.

This is a book that all serious students of Talmud need in their library. All the abbreviations, syllogisms, lists of tannaim and amoraim—in short, a handbook for Talmud study.

It's pretty good so far and has lots of information regarding the Talmudic Aramaic vocabulary.

The Yizhak Frank dictionary is great, but one disappointment. The book looks like a photocopy of an old book, and it really needs to be retypset.

This is an excellent resource. Rabbi Frank not only tells you want the literal meaning means but what it means in context. He gives examples from the gemara itself and I often find that he has cited the very sentence that I had a problem with.

Amazing resource

I appreciate all the practical information that Yitzhak Frank has packed into this volume. But the type! It looks like this book was set at a font size designed to be just big enough to be comfortable on an 8 1/2" x 11" page, and then it was reduced to a 6" x 9" page. The large print in this volume is about the size of footnote text in ordinary books, and the abundant small print is almost painful to try to read. This applies particularly to the Aramaic vowel points! I hope the publisher comes out with an enlarged edition.