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Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot Review

Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot Review

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I have previously briefly mentioned a couple of problems with the new work Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot haHadash, now I would like to give a full review. First, I am no expert in the teshuva literature, that being said I was somewhat disappointed with this book. The book first contains a long introduction into the teshuva literature in general. It discusses such topics as the importance of the literature, the pervasiveness or lack there of, as well as censorship in the teshuvot…

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R. Y. Emden, Hassidim & the Vilna Shas

R. Y. Emden, Hassidim & the Vilna Shas

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The Vilna edition of the Shas printed by the Romm Press has become the standard edition of the Shas. This Shas had many important additions and corrections that prior ones did not. One of those was the inclusion of the comments of R. Jacob Emden. However, it appears that one comment, a rather important one was left out. R. Emden in Gitten page 60 made a comment regarding the Hassidim, this does not appear in the Vilna Shas. In the…

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Note to Email subscribers

Note to Email subscribers

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Those who subscribe via email, the prior service, bloglet, appears to be dead. I have now switched to feedblitz. If you have already subscribed you need not do anything you have been automatically switched. However, if you would like to subscribe it is on the left side of the page.

The Meshumad Hazzan

The Meshumad Hazzan

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As some of you know I have an interest in meshumdim and their wide affect on modern day Judaism. Thus, Yehoshua Mondshine’s latest installment in his series on corrupted stories is especially good. Some may recall our earlier post on Mondshine’s earlier piece about the “classic” ba’al teshuva story and its root in a Shai Agnon story, I think this one is equally as good. This story is a Habad story and it basically goes like this. There was a…

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R. Reuven Margulies II

R. Reuven Margulies II

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I have already discussed the most recent book of R. Margulies and provided a bibliography of his works, I now want to turn to a brief biography of him. R. Margulies was born in 1889 and was known, from the time of his youth, as extremly erudite. Although he recieved ordination, he did not become a Rabbi and instead opened a bookstore in Lemberg. It is said that although his store was always full of talmidi hakhmim it was unclear…

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R. Reuven Margulies I

R. Reuven Margulies I

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First, I want to post a bibliography of R. Margulies’s works and then I shall discuss some biogrpahical details in the next post. This bibliography is not a scientific one in that I do not attempt to list every edition. Rather, I am listing just the works and some bibliogrpahical information as I see fit. Most of this information comes from Naftali Ben Menachem’s bibliogprahy of R. Margulies’s books which was printed in Sefer Margolious. 1) Toldot Adam (Lemberg 1912)…

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