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What is Da'at Press?
Our Sages—the architects of the oral tradition—taught that Torah is a disciplined way of reading, reasoning, arguing, knowing, and living. From their foundations emerged the Geonim, whose study halls in Babel became the great engines of Jewish law and Jewish thought. From Babel, that methodology and intellectual culture flowed into Sepharad, shaped its academies and communities, and then into Provence. From there it travelled outward—across the Sepharadi and Ashkenazi worlds—into different countries and communities, taking on different local forms while preserving a shared intellectual DNA.
Across all those migrations and permutations, a recognisable posture endured: The Author of the Torah is The Author of the world.
That premise changes how a tradition reads. If reality is God’s work, then the best tools available within reality—grammar and philology, logic, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and the disciplined habits of rational thinking—belong inside Torah study. They are not foreign diversions. They are instruments for understanding the Word with greater precision.
In this sense, this rabbinic tradition is an ideology and a worldview, not an ethnicity. It is a civilisation of learning that belongs to every member of Yisrael: text-centred, rational, reverent, and intellectually expansive, rooted in the conviction that God’s truth is one, whether encountered in revelation or in the structure of His creations.
Daʿat Press publishes books from that tradition—faithfully and beautifully—so they can live again in the hands, minds, and study halls of today. From Rabbenu Seʿadya to RaMBaM; from Rabbi Almosnino to Rabbi Benamozegh; from Rabbi Nieto to Mori Qafiḥ, and beyond. We publish originals and translations by Rabbanim and Dayanim of the past and present, as well as exceptional students who will lead tomorrow. That is why our motto is: “Jewish books from the past, present, and future.”
May our publications help every reader advance toward our people’s chief objective: Daʿat HaShem.
