Reb Mendel and His Wisdom: The Enduring Lessons of the Legendary Rosh Yeshivah, Rabbi Mendel Kaplan Book

A beautiful edition. Not being Jewish, I'm not sure what a Chumash actually is. I bought a copy of this shortly after I started studying Hebrew. For the Torah (or Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses), the Hebrew text is on the right hand page along with the Onkelos Targum and Rashi (in Rashi script, which I have trouble with). On the left hand page, a new translation of the Hebrew in English. A commentary in English is under the texts on both sides of the page. I was surprised that the commentary included Kabbalistic ideas. For the rest of the texts, the Haftaros and the Megillos, the Hebrew text and English translations split the page in columns, with sparse commentary in English at the bottom. The Torah portion was the first Hebrew text I completed reading (I had to look up a lotta words in my BDB though.) Several years later, when the Gospel Doctrine classes were studying the Old Testament, I used this book for the Torah portion again, switching to the Rubin Edition for Joshua, Judges, and 1 & 2 Samuel. For most of the rest of the Old Testament I used my Stone Edition Tanach. I learned a lot from reading in the Hebrew and also from the commentary. Loved it.