A Newly Discovered Work of the Rambam?
…page 30. The footnote cited is footnote 29 on page 34. My appreciation goes to a fine young scholar named Yosef, who brought this source to my attention. [3] Sefer…
Seforim For Sale – List 1
…is available, its about $4.50 a sefer. If one buys 5 seforim the price goes down a bit. All books will be air mailed out after I receive the money….
Chanukah Controversies, Customs and Scholarship: A Roundup & Update
…Ish u-Beyoto. In another review, “Yemi Shemonah,” Shamesh addresses the “famous” Bet Yosef question: why eight nights of Chanukah rather than seven? Sefer Minhagim, 1724, Gross Family Collection Chanukah Samach!…
New Book Announcement: A critical edition of R’ El‘azar HaKalir’s Piyyutim of Rosh Hashanah, by Shulamit Elizur and Michael Rand
…Michael Rand. The importance of studying the Piutim before Yom Tov has been noted by many for example: R’ Moshe Hakohen, nephew of the Rosh, writes in his work, Sefer…
Stolen Title Pages: The Case of An Unknown Contemporary Plagiarist
…at the Seforim blog; Shraga Abramson, “Chasad b’Ameirat Daver shelo b’Shem ‘Omro,” Sinai 112 (Nissan-Iyyar 1993): 1-24; Alei Sefer 16 (1990): 177-79; Moriah 83-84 (Adar I,1978) 79-80; A. Perls, “Das…
R. Isaac Arama, R. Kook, Mordecai Kaplan, and more
…has ההתכנות. [10] Plotinus refers to this as “two-fold ignorance”, which is also the “disease of the multitude.” See Yehudah Avida, Midrash ha-Melitzah ha-Ivrit (Jerusalem, 1938), p. 49. Of course, the one who has…
Eliezer Brodt: A Behind The Scenes Look at Two New Editions: Part One
…wrote nothing. One of his more famous works is the מנחת פתים on ד’ חלקי שלחן ערוך. The concept behind the sefer is a published listing of his comments on…
Genazym Auctions: Illustrations & the Friendship Between the Hazon Ish and R. Zevin
…a sale’s estimate of $100,000. [1] See Avraham Ya’ari, Mehkeri Sefer (Jerusalem: Yehuda, 1958) who discussed a number of books that were written after the author experienced cataclysimic events. See…
Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dunner (1913-2007), the final surviving musmakh of the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary
…Alei Sefer 17 (1993): 149-150; “Letters of Rabbi David Zevi Hoffmann, Rabbi Moses Feinstein, and Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg [Hebrew],” Ha-Ma’ayan 34 (Tevet, 5754 [1994]): 9-20; “Rabbi David Zevi Hoffmann…
Response to Criticism Part 4; Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and the Hazon Ish
…to him (including R. Ahron Soloveichik, Parah Mateh Aharon, Sefer Mada, p. 194[17]), never saw what Maimonides wrote in Guide 1:36 where he explains why an honest error in matters…
Legacy Judaica Auction, Cremation, R. Kook, and Other Items
…a Jewish audience. For one of the more bizarre travelogues, it is hard to surpass Sefer ha-Brit ha-Hadasha im ha-Nehar Sambatyyon be-Medinat China (lot 141). After receiving permission from President…
Breaching the Walls of History with Postscript
…identify himself by his own well-known name without drawing attention, particularly given that the sefer of his grandfather, Rabbeinu Chaim Halevi, was already catalogued in that very library. Nor could…
Gems from Rav Herzog’s Archive (Part 2): Sanhedrin, Dateline, the Rav on Kahane, and More
…Hershel Schachter brought in Shiurei Ha-rav (Sanhedrin), page 37, footnote 35. [3] Shenaton Ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri 14-15, page 235, footnote 77 [4] Dr. Revel did cite statements of other rishonim that…
The First Artichoke Controversy of 2012
…used as Maror. However, the textual evidence is weak. Sefer Ha’arukh is a dictionary, not a responsum, a legal code or a gloss to one, like Hagahot Maimoniyot which identifies tamkha as horseradish – chrayn, associated with…
Demythologising the Rabbinic Aggadah: Menahem Meiri
…the article by I. Ta-Shema in the Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 11, pp. 1257-1260 and Saperstein. op. cit., index ‘Menahem Meiri’. [7] This reference is given in Sefer Ha-Middot Le-Ha-Meiri, ed….