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Rabbi Gil Student is the Editor of TorahMusings.com, a leading website on Orthodox Jewish scholarly subjects, and the Book Editor of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action magazine. He writes a popular column on issues of Jewish law and thought featured in newspapers and magazines, including The Jewish Link, The Jewish Echo and The Vues. In the past, he has served as the President of the small Jewish publisher Yashar Books and as the Managing Editor of OU Press. Rabbi Student has served two terms on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America and currently serves as the Director of the Halacha Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Jewish Action magazine, the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society and the Achieve Journal of Behavioral Health, Religion & Community, as well as the Board of OU Press. He has published five English books, the most recent titled Search Engine volume 2: Finding Meaning in Jewish Texts -- Jewish Leadership, and served as the American editor for Morasha Kehillat Yaakov: Essays in Honour of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.
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It is a wonderful site. As far as I know there is no distinction between its talmudh babhli, yerushalmi, tosefta and standard printed editions.
I gather that they corrected printed editions of tanakh according to Aleppo Codex/yemenite Taj, and I know their mishne tora is based on Yemenite manuscripts considered most accurate, generally those belonging to the QaafiH family. As for mishna, I believe they follow Yemenite manuscripts as well, based on the presence of original versions like “goyim” throughout masekheth `a”z instead of the modern, censored “`obhde kokhabhim.”
The sources are all notes on their site. E.g.
משנה לפי כתב היד המיוחס לרמב”ם
תוספתא לפי מהדורת וילנא
תלמוד ירושלמי לפי מהדורת פיעטרקוב
תלמוד בבלי לפי מהדורת וילנא
So apart from Tanach and Rambam, the only non-standard edition they have is שישה סדרי משנה לפי כתב היד המיוחס לרמב”ם.
“משנה לפי כתב היד המיוחס לרמב”ם”
I thought all we have is the first two volumes.