…who tirelessly dealt with issues of husband desertion was Rabbi Shaul Yedidyah Shochet, author of the Responsa volumes Sefer Tiferet Yedidyah (St. Louis, 1920), where nearly two-thirds of the first…
…be-Shenat 1843,” Ali Sefer, 4 (June 1977), 174-77. Iasi, Yivo Encyclopedia; Iasi, Pinkas Kehilot Romania. For biographical information for Tauber, see Hayyim Nasson Dembitzer, Kelilat Yofei (Cracow, 1888), 151n1. [12]…
…he notices the mistakes. Now after his sefer went to press he still found mistakes and it disturbed him greatly. He learned from this an important lesson which he already…
…place on the night of Shavuot: “I heard that he was teaching Sefer ha-Mitzvot [i.e., Maimonides’ Book of the Commandments]. I came and sat down by the table. In the…
…informs us of the aforementioned Tanaitic contradiction, he continues: Tosefos Yeshanim… gives these two terutzim [solutions] to answer this contradiction. On the Sefer Yere’im… there is a perush [commentary] by…
…prior to publishing Sefer Hasidim in 1892?!?) See here for Ari Kinsberg’s “A Litvish Maskil and His Literary Mishlo’ah Manot,” where he also provides a brief biography of Wistinetzky, based…
…Yom Kippur, but this viewpoint has never been accepted. I don’t think readers will be surprised to learn that there is an entire sefer devoted to the laws of smelling….
…came this passage. He immediately set about issuing a ban on all the Romm books, classifying them within the category of a sefer torah of a heretic which is consigned…
…מפאניוועז’, מנוחה וקדושה, תיח עמודים A few years ago I wrote about this sefer and the censorship of various parts. This new editions is complete. What is interesting is that…
New sefer announcement: Asufah of Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazi By Eliezer Brodt אסופה, ארבעה מאמרים מאוצרות הר”ש אשכנזי שליט”א [‘העלם דבר וטעות סופר’, ‘הגונב מן הספר’, ‘הרמב”ם כמתרגם מלשון התלמוד ללשון…
Psalms on Rosh haShanaby: Eliezer Brodt What follows is a discourse, that is part of a forthcoming sefer, regarding the propriety of reciting Psalms on Rosh ha-Shana. This discussion touches…
…על האמת אלא מחמירים עפ”י שיקול דעתם ורגשי לבם. ועמם אין להתוכח והם חשודים גם על שפיכת דם של המקילים וד”ל. I published this volume as a sefer, to be…
…goes on demeaning the Chief Rabbi of New York, but you get the picture. As long as I am talking about the very interesting sefer Ma’aneh Eliyahu, let me also…
…opposed to the heter mekhirah nevertheless quoted from Abelman’s sefer and held it in high regard? To this, Gulevsky writes (p. 82): מה עשה בעל חזון איש? הוא בתמימותו ובכנותו…
…have been simply unimaginable that such a sefer would have been needed. 2. Many people are interested in the Rogochover, R. Joseph Rozin. There is no question that he had…