A Forgotten Work on Chanukah: חנוכת הבית
…the sefer before, and I was curious about it. I asked several people about the sefer until I found someone who was familiar with it. He was kind enough to…
Hebrew printing in Altdorf: A brief Christian-Hebraist Phenomenon
…print on their own behalf. The first Hebrew title printed in Altdorf was R. Yom Tov Lipmann Muelhausen’s Sefer Nizzahon (Liber Nizachon Rabbi Lipmanni . . .), published in 1644.[4]…
Torah Genius, Infallibility and Augmented Intelligence
…in his Leshem Shevo VeAchlama, Sefer HaDe’ah, Vol. 1, Maamar Kelali Al Yesod HaSefer, Ot 5, p. 4a, col. 1: “The concept of how the practice of Torah and Mitzvot…
R. Flensberg, Donkeys, Antelopes and Frogs
…use god’s name, only a word, that in this context refers to god only if read incorrectly. See also Ya’akov Shmuel Spegiel, Amudim be-Toldot Sefer ha-Ivri: Ketivah ve-Hatakah, Bar Ilan…
Approbations and Restrictions: Printing the Talmud in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam and Two Frankfurts
…escutcheon. [9] Rabbinovicz, pp. 95-6. [10] Rabbinovicz, p. 129 no. 1. Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel, Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri: Hagahot u-Megihim (Ramat-Gan, 1996), pp. 404-05 [Hebrew] adds that the Vilna Gaon learned from and made annotations on…
Zafenat Pane’ah—A Further Example in the Titling of Hebrew Books
…in Israel 3 (Tel Aviv, 1986), cols., 867-69; [Hebrew]; Tzvi M. Rabinowicz, The Encyclopedia of Hasidism (Northvale, London, 1996, pp. 239-40. [10] Ya’aḳov Shemuʼel Shpigel, ʿAmudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri: be_Sha’are…
