A Review of Parashas Hamelech – Al Mitzvas Hakhel, by Rabbi Moshe Parnes
A Review of Parashas Hamelech – Al Mitzvas Hakhel, by Rabbi Moshe Parnes Reviewed by: Rabbi Moshe Maimon, Jackson, NJ Sefer Parashas Hamelech on the mitzvah of Hakhel offers a…
The Aderet (part 2); Sonya Diskin and R. Yitzhak Yeruham Diskin; Zvi Glatt; and a New Letter from R. Herzog
…Israel, and it was this focus on Eretz Yisrael that led him to write the sefer. From a halakhic perspective, the most important aspect of the sefer is the appendix…
The Netziv, Reading Newspapers on Shabbos & Censorship (Part Two)
…printed soon for the first time from manuscript, namely The Ritva’s work on Nidah and his Sefer Ha-Zechron. Sefer Ha-Zechron is a defense of the Rambam from the Ramban’s various critiques in his Pirish…
The Unintended Perils of Plagiarizing
…1931. While this is technically correct, a portion of the sefer was reprinted, but under a different name a different author. In 1910 a similar family type sefer was published…
The Haftarot of the Sabbaths of Hanukkah and the Haftarah of the Sabbath of Rosh Ḥodesh Tevet
…read “Yehoyada.” This material appears as well, with slight variations, in Sefer ha-Pardes.[17] It is recorded in Ma‘asei ha-Geonim: ואילו תשובות שהשיב רבי’ ר’ משלם בר’ משה ממגנצא לאחי לר’…
ArtScroll’s Response and My Comments
…1898, with emendations from the Rosin edition of 1882. Indeed, this is what we have indicated in our just-published Sefer Shemos volume, and which will be reflected in future reprints…
Review – New Volume of Peskei Teshuvos on Mishna Berurah
…I can not back everything he says.” An awareness of the above concerns is illustrated by the story surrounding the Shmiras Shabbas K’hilchasa. This sefer quotes literally thousands of pesakim…
“Ask Rabbi Google”!! ??
…invariably someone has become excited and asked me to find that specific Sefer. Even the most unremarkable Sefer in my eyes seems to somehow attract a kindred Jewish spirit somewhere…
Eliezer Brodt – The Origins of Hamentashen in Jewish Literature
…[10] Yalkut ha-Minhagim, pg. 210 [11] Hamachazeh Ha-Ivri, p. 76 n.654. [12] This source is also quoted in the Otzar ha-Lashon ha-Ivrit, however the editors simply describe it as a…
Eliezer Brodt: Corrections and Clarifications
…through all four volumes. In general before I write a review on a sefer I read the sefer cover to cover a few times carefully. Since this work has four…
The Ethics of the Case of Amalek: An Alternative Reading of the Biblical Data and the Jewish Tradition
…to the messianic period, see Moses b. Jacob of Coucy, Sefer Mitsvot Gadol (SeMaG), negative commandment #226; and R. David b. Zimra (RaDBaZ) with Maimonidean Glosses to Hilkhot Melakhim 5:5.This…
Rabbinic Insults and Bibliographical Errors
…only known copy with the leaf. Indeed, the existence of the leaf is not mentioned in Vingrad’s Otzar ha-Sefer ha-Ivri, Jersusalem: 1994, vol. II, Frankfort A.M. # 218. But, the…
On some new seforim, Copernicus, saying Ledovid , Moses Mendelssohn and other random comments
…the recent printer of this sefer did not realize who this was. The original author of this sefer is quoting the Meor Einayim from Rabbi Azariah Min Hadomim who is…
Hatikvah, Shir HaMa’alot, & Censorship
…Shivchei is in fact an abriged version of a longer work. That work, Sefer Hezyonot the Book of Visions, is in fact published. The Sefer Hezyonot was first published in…
Kalir, False Accusations, and More
…hymns he tells us that is father’s name is Jacob. See R. Simon Federbush, Ha-Lashon ha-Ivrit be-Yisrael u-ve-ha-Amim (Jerusalem, 1967), pp. 70-71. [6] This identification explains how in Italy Jews with the Hebrew…