Upcoming Kestenbaum Auction and FREE sefer!
Kestenbaum & Company will be holding a auction on March 22 and their catalog is available online here. For those interested in a free sefer, someone is offering the KeMotzei…
Book Announcement: New edition of the Seder Hadorot
…the Seforim Blog readership aware of its recent publication. The second purpose of this post is to make this sefer available for purchase to those interested. Part of the proceeds…
A Look at Makhon Moreshet Ashkenaz’s New Journal: Yerushateinu
…articles on all topics – basically whatever your interest you’re sure to find something there. This sefer has about thirty articles including many articles which include hereto unpublished Torah from…
Translations of Rabbi Judah Halevi’s Kuzari
…in a number of formats, such as in Yediot Aharonot’s Am ha-sefer project[14] and on-line. There exists one more contemporary translation of the Kuzari into Hebrew and that is the…
Hayyim ben Benjamin Ze’ev Bochner: Kabbalist, Talmudist, and Grammarian
…3:19). The title-page notes that it was edited by Bochner, Sefer ha-Nikud vi-Sod ha-Hashmal – Also printed in 1648 is Sefer ha-Nikud vi-Sod ha-Hashmal, also in Cracow, also by the…
Concerning the Zohar and Other Matters
…the authorship of the Zohar, like that of Sefer Yetzirah, is one of the cruces of Jewish literature. The authorship by Simeon ben Yochai, or by his immediate disciples, though…
How much Greek in “Greek Wisdom”? On the Meaning of Hokhmat Yevanit
…Bernard Septimus notes what he views as use of this term by a twelfth century proponent of Aristotelian philosophy, Abraham ibn Daud.[12] In his Sefer ha-Qabbalah, ibn Daud describes the…
Eliezer and Joseph ben Naphtali Hertz Treves: Hebrew Publishers, briefly, in the Mid-Sixteenth Century
…commentaries.[8][9] Eliezer had printed previously, briefly, in Zurich. His imprints were an all-Yiddish Josippon and Sefer Hayira (both 1546), as well as a Yiddish Psalms. Dr Moshe Nathan Rosenfeld informs…
Comments on This and That, part 1
…few days, for the love he had to her.” R. Hayyim Zev Rosenfeld, in his Sefer ha-Hayyim (London, 1922), p. 22, asks a very good question. If you love someone,…
Using the works of Shadal and R. N. H. Wessely
…Series 2, Samuel David Luzzatto: The Bi-Centennial of His Birth, Magnes 2004, 79 – 13 [= Al Zeman Chiburim Shel Sefer HaZohar Vesefer HaBahir, 2011, pp. 75-116]; B. Huss, Kezohar…
Parshegen, an amazing new work on Targum Onkelos
…of Hashem in a Sefer Torah he has to articulate that it’s “Leshem Kedushat Hashem.” Failing to do so, the Sefer Torah is pasul. Now Rabbi Posen is well aware…
The Customs Associated with Joy on Chanukah and Their More Obscure Sources
…versions it only says שמחה and is lacking the key word משתה 2. Instruments and Jokes. As far as other aspects of Simcha on Chanukah in the Sefer Hamaskil (end…
Should we celebrate birthdays or not? Is it better to ignore them?
…the Mekor Chesed (Rav Reouven Margulies) on Sefer Chasidim (§213, note 1 ), it brings that the Yerushalmi (Yevamot VIII, 3) states that a plague occurs (at least) once every…
Who Wrote the Mekore Minhagim?(Part II)
…missing. Or later the ML says that something appears in the Sefer Shushan HaEdut and the Sefer Haradim and he has it as follows ואתי’ בס’ שושן עדות סי’ קפ”ז…
Review of R. Yedidyah Tiyah Weil’s Levushi Badim: With An Eye Towards Yom Kippur
…studying Sifrei Derush, but in this post I shall discuss one such sefer and how it helps us prepare for Yom Kippur. In 1988, the manuscript of the derashos Levushi…