Tevie Kagan: The Enigmatic R. David Lida
…found in the Priluck version of Sefer Yirah. In total, there are about twenty slight differences, but most are stylistic, with Priluck changing particular words and verses. The Sefer Yirah…
Rav Avraham Chai Reggio Brings A Sefer To Life
Rav Avraham Chai Reggio Brings A Sefer To Life By Eli Genauer Note: I would like to thank Rabbi Gad Bouskila of Congregation Netivot Israel in Brooklyn for helping me decipher…
Towards a Bibliography of Coronavirus-related Articles & Seforim written in the past month (updated): Black Weddings and others Segulot
…his sefer Derech Hakodesh on the same subject he quoted numerous passages from it. However, the actual sefer by the Maharit was never printed. In 2007 Machon Zichron Aharon reprinted…
A Footnote on What the Chasam Sofer Did Not Say
…lose his name.”[5] Indeed, such has been the fate of most authors of seforim. How much more so is it prohibited for an author to publish his sefer for financial…
Gelatin, Abraham Goldstein, R. Moses Isserles, and More, Part 2
…earlier sefer published by an American-born author? There is another sefer that I am aware of, but as it is not an original sefer, I gave Revel the honors. The…
R. Yehuda Hachasid & Natural Phenomenon: A Review of Amaros Tehoros
…result is an excellent scientific edition of this sefer by R. Yehuda Hachasid. This sefer is heavily influenced by R. Sa’adia Gaon’s haEmunah V’Deos. It is worth pointing out that…
More About Rashbam on Genesis Chapter 1 and Further Comments about ArtScroll
…הורויץ. The spelling I have given of R. Horowitz’s last name is how he himself spelled it. Here is the title page of his Sefer Ketubah, the first part of…
Young Rabbis and All About Olives
…wrote Sefer Nir, a commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud, when not many were studying it. Here is the title page of one of the volumes, where it tells us that he…
The Ze’enah –Re’enah and its Author
…Sefer ha-Magid (Lublin, 1623-1627); Sefer Shoresh Ya’akov (Cracow, 1640). The relationship of Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac to Sefer ha-Magid is complicated. See, R. Hayyim Lieberman, “Concerning the Sefer ha-Magid and…
Rav Shmuel ben Hofni Gaon
…published as critical editions.[13] 1) Sefer HaBagrut, ed. T. Meacham, Yerushalayim 1999[14] 2) Sefer HaGerushin, ed. Z.Y. Shtampfer, Yerushalayim 2009[15] Additionally, G. Libson published a second article containing further chapters…
Two Editions of R. Chaim Berlin’s Responsa: An Egregious Example of Censorship
Two Editions of R. Chaim Berlin‘s Responsa: An Egregious Example of Censorship by Eliezer Brodt R. Chaim Berlin, Sefer Nishmat Hayyim, She’elot u-Teshuvot, R. Ya’akov Kosovsky-Shachor ed., Beni-Brak, 2002, 412…
New Sefer Announcement
New Sefer Announcement By Eliezer Brodt .מודעא לבית ישראל, ביטול מודעה, מודעה רבה, תשובות גדולי ישראל בנדון מצות מכונה בפסח, קיא + שיא עמודים, ע“י, ר‘ מרדכי קנאפפלער וישראל טרעס…
Regarding Haftarah on Simchat Torah and the daily obligation to recite 100 blessings
…day of Shmini Atzeret[17], it makes sense that this caused the change in Haftorah, as the beginning of Sefer Yehoshua is a natural continuation of the Torah and it starts…
The Future of Israeli Haredi Society: Can The Written Word Offer Some Insight? (And Assorted Other Comments)
…halakhah cited here does not explicitly appear in the Sefer ha-Hinukh. All the Sefer ha-Hinukh states is that there is a biblical prohibition to give bad advice to a fellow Jew. But who…
Who can discern his errors? Misdates, Errors, Deceptions, and other Variations in and about Hebrew Books, Intentional and Otherwise: Revisited
…Ten Days of Penitence.”[21] Kitvei Rabbenu Baḥya and Hegyon ha-Nefesh are sufficiently alike to support Chavel’s contention that Rabbenu utilized the Sefer Hegyon ha-Nefesh (or Sefer ha-Mussar) of the earlier…