Shemot Hakhamim & Its Ommissions
…has been updated here), any of Ta-Shma’s works, Amudim be-Tolodot Sefer ha-Ivri by Y.S. Speigel, A. Grossman’s works on the Rishonim, or Shivrei Luchot by Y. Emmanuel. These omissions allows for…
To Censor or Not to Censor, that is the Question
…Yakkov Shmuel Speigel, Amudim be-Tolodot Sefer ha-Ivri: Ketivah veha-Atakah (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2005), 241-97; Marc Shapiro, Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites History (Oxford: Littman Library…
Marc B. Shapiro – Responses to Comments and Elaborations of Previous Posts III
Responses to Comments and Elaborations of Previous Posts III by Marc B. Shapiro This post is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Chaim Flom, late rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Ohr…
Visiting Zoos in Halacha
…Edition of Sefer Hamaskil of R. Moshe Ben R. Eliezer Hacohen,” Yerushaseinu (2006), pp. 218–220. 46. Magen Avraham, ad loc., 14. 47. Sefer Hamaskil, Jerusalem 2004, pp. 48–49. 48. M.T.,…
The Agunah Problem, Part 1; Incarceration and Free Speech
…wife. [16] It appears that the Arukh ha-Shulhan derived reason 2 from a formulation in the Sefer Agudah. However, R. Yosef Goldberg argues that the Arukh ha-Shulhan is mistaken and that the Sefer Agudah cannot be seen as…
Simchas Torah & a Lost Minhag of the Gra
…of the Gra. Earlier this year (2018) R’ Dovid Kamenetsky published a very important manuscript related to the Maaseh Rav. This work sheds light on how this important sefer of…
