Rav Gorelick, the Rav, and Revision by Omission
…more likely in this case that the reference is obscured because it doesn’t “pas” to quote halachic material in a sefer from an English book. Another example of revision by…
Carmi Horowitz: A Critique of Two New Reprints
…of the Perush on Sefer Yezirah of R. Yehudah b. Barzilai Barceloni. The following is based on an initial perusal of the two works. I have not read through the…
Book Announcement: The Lost Library by Dan Rabinowitz
…Gaon R’ Yakov Chaim Sofer always quotes him with great respect. He then showed me a sefer of Mattiyahu printed by Mossad Harav Kook (Mivchar Kesavim). The sefer was out…
Plagiarism, Citation, and Redemption
…be scientific objections to the Copernican model. The bold text shows where the text is identical to Sefer Haberit, first published in 1798. Quite simply put, Landau stole from Sefer Haberit….
“Ha’Rotzeh Lichanek, Hitaleh B’Ilan Gadol”: Notes on some Literary forgeries of Jewish works in the the Late Modern Period (1756-1965)
…13 Zekher Tzaddikim Mordecai Sultansky 1841 14 Sefer Avnei Zikaron Abraham Firkovich 1845-1872 15 The Roads of Jerusalem Eliakim Carmoly 1847 16 Sefer Ha’Eshkol R’ Zvi Binyamin Auerbach 1863 17…
A Short Note Regarding an Illustrated Title Page and A Possible Unicum
…British Library, 1994), 599; Joseph Zedner, Catloglouge of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum (London, 1867), 510 recording Mantua 1759; Yeshayahu Vinograd, Otsar ha-Sefer ha-Ivri (Jerusalem:…
Review of Jay R. Berkovitz’s The Pinkas of Metz
…are also a number of seforim that are composed of riddles to sharpen the student’s mind. In 1545 R’ Yakov Landau published one in the back of his Sefer HaAgur…
The Golem of Prague in Recent Rabbinic Literature
…Shimon of Zelikhov, משגיח of Yeshivat Hakhmei Lublin, said: “Everyone knows that the Maharal made use of the Sefer Yetzirah and created a Golem. I don’t claim that one needs…
The Root of the Word מבול: A Flood of Possibilities
…This would give more of a basis to interpret מבול as deriving from נבל. [9] In addition to his comm. to Gen. 6:17, see his Sefer ha-Shoreshim, entry נבל. [10]…
The Porto family: Eminent Sages, Scholars, and Prolific Seventeenth Century Authors
…title-page has a pillared frame and simply states that it is a sefer ha-mispar (book of numbers). The verso of the title page has verse encouraging purchase of the book,…
“A Woman Is Not an Elephant”
…with this aphorism; a version of it even appears in the introduction to the Sefer Ha’Meoros, where Rav Zerahiah Ha’Levi, in the course of his gathering numerous sources in justification…
A Compromise in Halacha – On Menachot 33a
…honorable to have a Sefer Torah lying horizontally than standing vertically. He therefore translates the word “נגר” as a “peg” and says that the disqualification of a Mezuzah affixed כמין נגר is that…
Final Response
…(and among traditional interpreters he is not alone in this understanding[5]). Here are the pages from R. Pessin’s sefer. Speaking of tikkun soferim, the most famous of which is Gen….
The Pew Report and the Orthodox Community (and Other Assorted Comments), part 2
…fashion: דרך סדין בעל. In case the words דרך סדין were not clear to readers, R. Baruch ben Isaac explains in Sefer ha-Terumah, Hilkhot Halitzah (Jerusalem, 1983), p. 46a, that…
Eliezer Brodt: Review of Halikhot Shlomo, by R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
…They try to reference exactly where everything came from; but, at times, this too becomes a bit confusing. The sefer has a nice layout the top part contains the statement…