Mezuzah Revisited. Parshat Vaetchanan.
…Our scrolls written according the Mesorah, Rambam (Sefer Torah 2:6), Semag (Asin 22) and Minhat Shai have the first Vav between two Zain’s missing, but Leningrad scroll (used on Bar…
Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn – A Multi-faceted Erudite Scholar
…express my appreciation to Eli Genauer for reading the article and his comments. [2] Mordecai Samuel Ghirondi and Hananel Neppi, Toledot Gedolei Yisrael u-Ge’onei Italyah ve-Hagahot al Sefer Zekher Tzadikim…
Truth be Told[1] Comments on Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites its History by Marc B. Shapiro
…Sa’adia Gaon’s Sefer HaMitzvot, I, p. 156b. [14] R. Joshua Menahem Mendel Ehrenberg, Resp. Devar Yehoshua, I, addendum to sec. 19, no. 6 (see also V, Y.D. sec 12). See also R. Nahum Yavruv, Niv Sefatayyim (Jerusalem, 1989) Niv Sefatayyim, kelal 1;…
A year in Berlin: The Beginning of Hebrew Printing in Berlin in c. 1699
…and in this small book he demonstrates his expertise and sharpness. . . Included is Sefer Luah ha-Hayyim which speaks of remedies in order that a person should be healthy…
The Netziv, Reading Newspapers on Shabbos in General & Censorship (Part Three)
…I am sure there is. I will leave all this to discussions about Marc Shapiro’s new book. My concern here is, for example a sefer or other writings which the…
R. Nathan Nata ben Moses Hannover: The Life and Works of an Illustrious and Tragic Figure
…apex surrounds the text.[23] The text states, These are the words of Kabbalah according to the scribes and according to the texts, Sefer Etz Hayyim, those who taste it merit life, written…
The Image of the Menorah in the Early Printed Hebrew Book
…Degali Madfisim ha-Ivriyim (Jerusalem: Hebrew University Press, 1944), see index s.v. magen David and menorah; Yitzhak Yudlov, Degali Madfisim (Jerusalem: Old City Press, 2002); For examples of lions, eagles, and…
[1]: א״ל הקב״ה … יודע אני כוונתו של אהרן היאך היתה לטובה On a Short Wedding Wish to the Lichtensteins from the Pen of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg
…on his way to deliver a shi‘ur at the yeshivah in Montreux.[29] Through some serendipitous twist of fate, it is this copy of the sefer which made its way into…
Eliyahu Bachur in Isny
…Sefer HaBachur, Isny 1542 where he explains the name of the book and comments: “…. היות שם כינויי משונה ובשם בחור מכונה …. ” ). He was born in southern…
An enigmatic Pseudo-Shklov edition of Barukh She’amar
…She’amar, a halakhot work pertaining to Sefer Torah, tefillin, and mezuzot by R. Simeon bar Eliʻezer (d. c. 1360). The author of Barukh She’amar, R. Simeon bar Eliʻezer (d. c….
Apostomos Now: Contemporary Conjectures on a Classic Conundrum
…(War 1:648–655, Ant. 17:6:2) can also be linked to the seventeenth of Tammuz. The theory is supported by Sefer Yosippon, a tenth-century Hebrew Italian-Jewish history of the second Temple period…
Book Announcements: Five recent works
…types of publications running the gamut from academic journals such as Kiryat Sefer, Tarbiz, Sidra, Alei Sefer, Assufot, Teudah, Kovetz Al Yad and also in many prominent Charedi rabbinic journals…
Cemeteries and Response to Criticism
…himself who wrote the Sefer Ikrim didn’t accept all the Thirteen of the Rambam. One might argue that we don’t really find anywhere to my knowledge significant dispute about the…
Bein hashemashot: A Reevaluation of the Texts Part IV
…undoubtedly have reached a radically different conclusion. R. Willig expresses a similar point, albeit less directly. (This issue was raised directly in a recent sefer by R. D. Heber, Shaarei…
Some More Assorted Comments, part 1
…raise themselves in holiness at the expense of their wives.[19] R. Yitzhak Abadi’s new sefer, Or Yitzhak vol. 2, has just appeared, and he too deals with this issue. (For…