Rav Kook’s Attitude towards Keren Hayesod – United Israel Appeal
…the Land, even in a town where the majority are Jews. In Sefer Ha-Mitzvot (mitzvah 4) Nachmanides wrote: that we were commanded to inhabit the Land; “and this is a…
Haggadah, First Hebrew Map, and Forgery
…write the Biurim. Sources: A. Yaari Maps of Israel in the Haggadah, Machanyim, 55 (1971) 152-159; (for more on converts in printing see Yaari, Mehker Sefer, 245-55); Introduction Imrei Sefer,…
Towards a Bibliography of Coronavirus-related Articles & Seforim written in the past month
… [1] Mechkerey Sefer, pp. 90-99. See also Marvin Heller, Further Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book, pp.79-90. See these recent posts here & here. [2]…
Towards a Bibliography of seforim related to Shavous and Megilas Rus (new and old)
…article in Yerushasenu 5 (2011), pp. 337-360. [A PDF is available upon request]. Another issue of interest worth mentioning related to Shavous is the plagiarism of the highly controversial Sefer…
Shemot 2:1 – Did Rashi Include Miriam’s Advice to Her Father?
…most famous Medrashim in Sefer Shemot tells how six-year-old Miriam convinced her father Amram to re-marry her mother Yocheved. After the decree that all baby boys born would be thrown…
As The Kohen Exits The Sancta: A New Edition of Reb Zadok ha-Kohen of Lublin’s Tzidkat ha-Tzadik
…the son-in-law of Reb Zadok, R. Barukh Dovid ha-Kohen in Lublin, 1902. Since then, a number of different editions of the Sefer have appeared, some of them notably censored in…
Mossad HaRav Kook Sale 2016
…קשים לפי פשוטם ודקדוקם, רי עמודים These two volumes are critical editions of the Ibn Ezra works Sefer Tzachus and Sefer Moznayim, based on manuscripts and include numerous useful notes…
New seforim list with some random comments
…מוואלאזין, עם מקורות ביאורים והערות, קמו עמודים+ 110 עמודים ועוד. This sefer looks beautiful but is lacking one thing: a proper introduction to enumerate what it exactly is adding to…
Rabbi Steinman and the Messiah, part 2
…this in R. Klatzkin’s Miluim le-Sefer Devar Halakhah (Lublin 1923), pp. 126-128. For some reason, the copy of this book on Otzar haChochma is missing the second half of the…
A Tale of Two Zionist Siddurim in Exile
…his lost edition of Ein Ya‘akov). In this he provides a contrast to Bialik and Ravnitsky’s Sefer ha-Aggadah (Odessa, 1912). He seems to have viewed the siddur as a national…
Dei’ah veDibur Fabrication – Dr. Leiman
…who was a distinguished rabbi with ordination from the greatest rabbis in Poland, is defrocked], whose 1909 volume on the Golem of the Maharal (Sefer Nifla’ot Maharal) is identified as…
More on story fabrication – The Golem
…titled Sefer Yetzirah which appears to be available on the Rare Hebrew Books from Harvard’s Collection Microfilm]. But perhaps the most surprising thing in the entire article is its conclusion…
Purim roundup
…on this relatively recent Jewish custom. Judah Wistinetzky and Mishloach Manot to his American friends (3.02.2007); Menachem Butler points out a post by Ari Kinsberg about a sefer distributed as…
“Seeing the Infinite in Torah” A Memorial to the Gaon Rabbi Shelomo Fisher (Author of Beit Yishai)
…Status Quo Ante, and separatist Orthodox.) After his passing, his son Aharon published in Jerusalem his sefer, Korbani Lahmi (2 parts, 1933-1937). Besides Talmudic erudition, the work evidences linguistic ability….
Anim Zemiros – A Poem for All Ages by Rabbi Elchanan Adler book review
…in America. It is rare to find a book that is able to successfully illuminate a complex topic, yet still remain captivating and easily accessible. Rabbi Elchanan Adler’s new sefer…