Afikoman – “Stealing“ and Other Related Minhagim
…But even those who recorded this minhag occasionally referred to it in less than complimentary terms. For example, in 1824 a parody called the Sefer Hakundos (literally, the “Book of…
Can A Segulah Free an Agunah? Jewish Beliefs and Practices for Locating a Drowned Body
…a sefer printed about 1646 in Krakow, by R’ Yaakov Naftoli Ben Yehudah Leib of Lublin the Sefer was originally called Derech Hayoshor. [see Kiryat Sefer, 1933/34, 10, pg. 252]….
How Dare You Translate Kabbalah!
How Dare You Translate Kabbalah! by Avinoam Fraenkel Avinoam Fraenkel’s new book, Shomer Emunim: The Introduction to Kabbalah (Urim Publications, 2021), is a full facing page translation and expansive commentary…
Azariah de’ Rossi’s Annotations on Sefer ha-Kuzari: Identification and Preliminary Analysis
Azariah de’ Rossi’s Annotations on Sefer ha-Kuzari: Identification and Preliminary Analysis Yehuda Seewald Abstract This article presents the identification of annotations on a 1547 Venice edition of Sefer ha-Kuzari (The…
Daily Birkat Cohanim in the Diaspora
…author of Sefer ha-Terumah. This commentary in this instance bases itself on (the largely lost) Sefer Miktzoot. [4] The editor of this commentary pointed out (in note 48) that this…
New Book Censored
R. Elijah haBahur‘s Sefer haTishbi has just been republished. The Sefer haTishbi is a dictionary devoted to words that do not appear in R. Nathan of Rome’s Orukh. This particular…
