Megillat Sefer Translation: A Review By Pini Dunner
…In a much more recent article, “Sefer Megillat Sefer,” penned by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Goldstein of Kiryas Joel for the Etz Hayim journal published by the Bobov Hasidim, the same…
Midrashic Exegesis and Biblical Interpretation in the Meshekh Hokhmah
…Haivri 22 (2004), 233, 295, regarding the Written Law becoming a canonical work that does not function as the basis for legal creativity, even as it plays the role of…
R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, Tikkat Shofar on Shabbat & plagiarism (of course)
…figure in this discussion is R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger. R. Schlesinger is perhaps best known for his book Lev haIvri a commentary on the last will and testament of the…
Eliezer Brodt: A Censored Work by a Student of R. Hayyim of Volozhin: The Case of Menuchah u-Kedushah
…discuss this sefer a bit. The author in his introduction (which, oddly enough, was omitted in the newest reprinted version of the sefer) outlines very clearly what he had wanted…
Do you recall Hrubieszow? Hrubieszow, Home to an Active Early Nineteenth Century Hebrew Press
…he is credited with Sefer ha-Yashar. Sefer ha-Yashar was published in octavo format (80: [2], 40 ff.). The title-page begins that it is “the path of life and moral reproof,…
An Honest Account of a Contemporary Jewish Publishing Odyssey
…March 2014, I tweeted, “Considering writing a sefer entitled “Aveiros K’Hilchisa.” Considering writing a sefer entitled “Aveiros K’Hilchisa.” — D Bash (@DBashIdeas) March 5, 2014 The tweet was originally intended…
