R. Yehuda Hachasid & Natural Phenomenon: A Review of Amaros Tehoros
…result is an excellent scientific edition of this sefer by R. Yehuda Hachasid. This sefer is heavily influenced by R. Sa’adia Gaon’s haEmunah V’Deos. It is worth pointing out that…
More About Rashbam on Genesis Chapter 1 and Further Comments about ArtScroll
…הורויץ. The spelling I have given of R. Horowitz’s last name is how he himself spelled it. Here is the title page of his Sefer Ketubah, the first part of…
Young Rabbis and All About Olives
…wrote Sefer Nir, a commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud, when not many were studying it. Here is the title page of one of the volumes, where it tells us that he…
The Ze’enah –Re’enah and its Author
…Sefer ha-Magid (Lublin, 1623-1627); Sefer Shoresh Ya’akov (Cracow, 1640). The relationship of Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac to Sefer ha-Magid is complicated. See, R. Hayyim Lieberman, “Concerning the Sefer ha-Magid and…
Rav Shmuel ben Hofni Gaon
…published as critical editions.[13] 1) Sefer HaBagrut, ed. T. Meacham, Yerushalayim 1999[14] 2) Sefer HaGerushin, ed. Z.Y. Shtampfer, Yerushalayim 2009[15] Additionally, G. Libson published a second article containing further chapters…
Two Editions of R. Chaim Berlin’s Responsa: An Egregious Example of Censorship
Two Editions of R. Chaim Berlin‘s Responsa: An Egregious Example of Censorship by Eliezer Brodt R. Chaim Berlin, Sefer Nishmat Hayyim, She’elot u-Teshuvot, R. Ya’akov Kosovsky-Shachor ed., Beni-Brak, 2002, 412…
