The Rabbi, the Rebbe, and the Messiah
…a reaction to Hagar’s sefer, Tzemach Tzadik. In his work Zichron Borsa[21], Stein explains that since Hagar gave no explanation to the title of his sefer, which was perplexing since it did…
Milah Books & Manuals
Milah Books & Manuals by Eliezer Brodt & Ish Sefer Much has been written on milah. Hebrew Books has over forty seforim on this topic. There are those books that…
The Cup for the Visitor: What lies behind the Kos Shel Eliyahu?
…Richard Cohen, Jewish Icons, (1998), pp. 90-100; U. Schubert, Emunos HAsefer HaYehudit (1993); Marc Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination (2011), especially, pp. 80-84. [33] Minhaghei Yisroel…
Hasidism in America
…apparently only thirteen years old, see Gedulat Pinhas (Brooklyn, 1999), p. 14; Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel, Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri: Be-Sha’arei ha-Defus (Jerusalem, 2014), p. 65. At a future time I can discuss the rabbis…
Renewal of the Hakhel Ceremony in Jerusalem and New York
…person in 2008 at the last Zecher LeHakhel he attended before his passing in 2013. [5] See Yaakov S. Spiegel, Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri / Chapters in the History of…
Jewish Communal Workers, Preacher’s Kid Syndrome, and Sefer Shmuel
Jewish Communal Workers, Preacher’s Kid Syndrome, and Sefer Shmuel [1] By Rabbi Akiva Males This article is dedicated to the memory of HaRav Gedalia Dov Schwartz, zt”l, – whose 5th…
