Torah Reading for Zochor and Parah By Eliezer Brodt The following is a chapter of my PHD dissertation related to the upcoming Torah Reading for Zochor and Parah קריאת פרשת זכור ופרשת פרה דאורייתא* מאת אליעזר יהודה בראדט ר’ אברהם גומבינר בעל ‘מגן אברהם’ נפטר בצום גדליה שנת תמ”ג ולא זכה לראות חיבורו ‘נר ישראל’, הפירוש המונומנטלי לשלחן ערוך אורח חיים, יוצא לאור בדפוס. כמה שנים לאחר מכן, בשנת תנ”ב, נדפס החיבור יחד עם ‘טורי זהב’ בדיהרן פארט ע”י המדפיס…
Towards a Bibliography About Realia and Chumash, specifically relating to the Mishkan and Bigdei Kehunah By Eliezer Brodt Learning Chumash and Nach is extremely important for many reasons. Over time it became a neglected subject (why is the subject of a different post IY”H) and in many circles is still true today. Sadly, many people remain with the images of the various stories from Tanach the way they heard it in their youth without a genuine understanding of the events….
The Collected Writings of Moshe Reines Kickstarter Moshe Reines was a polymath: Talmudist, Hebraist, historian, investigative reporter, social commentator – a prolific and influential thinker, writer, and author. The son of Rabbi Yitzchok Yaakov Reines, Moshe Reines died tragically in 1891 at the astonishingly young age of twenty-one. The obituary which appeared in Hamagid had this to say about the young Reb Moshe z”l: “He excelled amazingly in his absolute mastery of Shas…” The volume (compiled and edited by Eliezer…
Artwork and Images in Synagogues By: Eliezer Brodt This article originally appeared in the Hebrew Kulmos magazine of Mishpacha, Shavous 2017. I hope to return to this subject in the future. מה דמות תערכו לו? על אף ההרחקה היתירה שהרחיקה תורתנו הקדושה מצורות ופסלים, מנהג ישראל קדושים מאז ומעולם היה לעטר את כתלי בתי הכנסת בעיטורים, הכוללים דמויות כוכבי השמים וצורות חיות ובהמות / לשם מה נועדו העיטורים? / מהו ההיתר לעשותם? וכיצד ניתן לעטר את בית הכנסת מבלי לגרום…
God’s Silent Voice: Divine Presence in a Yiddish Poem by Abraham Joshua Heschel Ariel Evan Mayse joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2017 as an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, after previously serving as the Director of Jewish Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, and a research fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Harvard University…
The Yiddish Press as a Historical Source for the Overlooked and Forgotten in the Jewish Community by Eddy Portnoy Eddy Portnoy is Senior Researcher and Director of Exhibitions at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He is the author of the recently-published (and much acclaimed, and fun) book, Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press (Stanford, 2017), available here (https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Rabbi-Strange-Stories-Stanford/dp/150360411X). This is his first contribution to the Seforim Blog. Sanhedrin 25 has this pretty well-known,…