Includes approbations of leading rabbis, including R. Moshe Sofer, the Chatam Sofer, who later retracted his approbation and published a broadside declaring: “I shamelessly admit that because of my sins I was embarrassingly blinded”, although he writes that the only fault of the work is the fact that it is a translation of the Talmud.

The translation also received the approbations of many non-Jewish leaders, and the book was sponsored by the Russian Czar Nicholas I. At the beginning of the book is a full page dedication to the Czar. With subscribers including kings, princes and dukes, among them: the Russian Czar who purchased one hundred copies, the Dutch King who purchases five copies, the King of Belgium, the King of Denmark and others.