On Libraries, Bibliophiles & Images: Taj Auction 13
…catalog of his library, Yodeah Sefer. Despite the many rare books in the collections, there was at least one book he could not procure, at least a complete copy. In…
Partnership Minyanim and More
…על ידי זימון, או אם הוא עם הארץ להוציאו ידי חובתו כדרך שהאיש מוציאו. See also R. Asher Ben Hayyim, Sefer ha-Pardes, ed. Blau (New York, 1984), pp. 176-177, and also…
Israel ben Shabtai [Hapstein]. ‘Avodat Yisrael – Book review by Bezalel Naor
…of “Rashi” script (today unfamiliar to Hebrew readers without rabbinic training). About now the cognoscenti will chime in, “Afilu sefer torah she-be-heikhal tsarikh mazal” (“Even a Torah scroll in the…
Lag B’Omer through the eyes of a Litvak in 1925
…– “Feuerwerke”. In HaHar Hatov it is mistakenly transcribed as “Feueraserke”. [29] וכן המנהג שלנו. [30] See Sefer HaManhig הלכות אירוסין ונישואין סימן קו. [31] בית הבחירה יבמות סב, ב…
Torah mi-Sinai and More
…in the sentence. וְעָשִׂיתָ לְאַהֲרֹן וּלְבָנָיו, כָּכָה, כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר-צִוִּיתִי, אֹתָכָה One of the sources that refers to this text is Zev Grossman, Darkhei ha-Melitzah be-Sefer Tehillim. This is a very interesting…
Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926 – Review II
…were not erudite. In an apparent effort to help with this deficiency, in 1901, R. Dov Baer Abramowitz published his Sefer Ketubah. This book contains tear out, pro forma ketubot….
Hakirah, Metzitzah, and More
Hakirah, Metzitzah, and More Marc B. Shapiro Hakirah has performed a valuable service in dealing forthrightly with the matter of homosexuality. Issue no. 13 (2012) contains R. Chaim Rapoport’s “Judaism and…
New seforim and books
…תוכן העניינים. This sefer simply put is incredible. It does not come with an index instead you get a disk of the sefer fully searchable. ב. משנת ארץ ישראל…
New Feature – Listing of New Seforim
…Dov Schwartz on R. Mattityahu’s philosophy based upon this commentary. 3) HaNehmadim miPaz a 862 page work on everything and everything having to do with mitzvah of writing a sefer…
Kaddish – His Will
…in the prayer על הכל based on the Kaddish which is recited upon removing the Sefer Torah from the Aron Ha-Kodesh. In modern prayerbooks it is found among the Sabbath…
Shnayer Leiman: Notes on Rabbinic Epitaphs I
…destroyed. Despite all the claims otherwise, we do not know where Rashi (d. 1105), Ibn Ezra (d. 1164), R. Eleazar b. Yehudah of Worms, author of Sefer Rokeah (d. circa…
A selection from Strictly Kosher Reading by Yoel Finkelman
…‘Arukh, Yoreh De’ah, 240:20 and Rama, 245:10; Sefer Hasidim, 302, cited in Baumgarten, Mothers and Children, 162; R. Yeshayahu Horowitz, Shenei Luhot HaBerit (Jerusalem: n.p., 1975), Letter Daled, paragraph 23-32;…
Altering of Rabbinic Texts?, Shlomo Rechnitz and the Eighth Principle of Faith, R. Yair Hayyim Bacharach, the Ridbaz and “Chemistry,” and R. Yitzhak Barda
…side, and the way to do this is by slandering Modern Orthodoxy. [6] See Rashi to Ex. 25:22. Even the ArtScroll-Sapirstein Rashi translation is forced to admit: “Rashi’s Sefer Torah evidently had a ו where…
Interview with Rabbi Moshe Maimon About his Edition of R. Avraham b. HaRambam’s Peirush on Chumash
…enhanced as a result. The Genizah portal was key in locating as of yet unpublished fragments of Sefer Hamaspik which were useful in elucidating corresponding passages in the Peirush, and…
The Book of Disputes between East and West
…from Sefer Erekh Millin by Rabbi Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (SHIR) 70. People of the East first marry and then learn Torah. People of the Land of Israel learn Torah…