It has gained much popularity since its release and is used in many congregations throughout the English-speaking world;[1] it is now published in three languages: English, French, and Modern Hebrew.
[2] Rabbis Chaim Malinowitz and Yisroel Simchah Schorr are the general editors of the project.
[5] Subsequent editions were produced with the financial assistance of Jerome Schottenstein, an Orthodox Jew and founder of an Ohio department store.
[8][9] In 2020, Agudath Israel of America credited the Schottenstein Edition for a large rise in the number of English-speaking individuals becoming involved in the seven-year-long daf yomi cycle and their participation at the 13th Siyum HaShas, which marked the completion of the full learning sequence.
Since it is not possible in a work of this nature to do justice to all of the Rishonim, we have chosen to follow the commentary most learned by people, and the one studied first by virtually all Torah scholars.