New Sefer Announcement
New Sefer Announcement by: Eliezer Brodt I just printed a small sefer, Likutei Eliezer, it is 120 pages and paperback. The sefer consists of four chapters each with many parts….
The Netziv, Reading Newspapers on Shabbos, in general & Censorship (part one)*
…report. In 1888, when Rav Kook he was 23 years old, he published the first issue of a periodical entitled ‘Ittur Sofrim’.[6] This sefer had many impressive Haskomot from Gedolei Yisroel, among…
Pandemic Bibliopenia: A Preliminary Report of Disease Eradication
…is not the focus of this article. On the history of literature written during times of plague, see Abraham Yaari, biOhalei Sefer (Reuven Mass, 5699), 82-90. The other essays in…
Women, Simchat Torah, and Censorship
…(ibid); Z. Gris, Hasefer Kesochen Tarbus, p.172 and here. Another custom which women are involved in on Simchat Torah is the throwing of the fruit to the children. On this…
Half Faith, Half Heresy: Between S.Y. Agnon and Gershom Scholem
…Aviv (now part of Beit Ariella) and was a distinguished Torah scholar. The current librarian, R. Avishai Elbom, published a column “Rabbi Reuven Margolies vs. Professor Gershom Scholem” (Am HaSefer…
The Strange Shape of the Marcheshet Pan
…contain diagrams. [4] Printing the Talmud: A History of the Earliest Printed Editions of the Talmud, Marvin J. Heller, Im Hasefer 1993 p.6 states as follows: “Rabbinovicz attributes the dearth of…
