David Sassoon, Bibliophile Par Excellence
…Torah minded of the Sassoon brothers, Solomon would recite all 150 perakim of Sefer Tehillim before leaving for his office every day. Modest and unassuming, he served as a wonderful…
Censorship in the Sefer Chofetz Chaim?
Censorship in the Sefer Chofetz Chaim? (Another chapter of R. Shmuel Ashkenazi’s Latest Work) Unfortunately, the amount of responses regarding assisting the publication of R. Ashkenazi’s work was underwhelming (we…
New Sefer Announcement – פירוש התורה לרבינו אברהם בן הרמב”ם, ספר שמות
New Sefer Announcement By: Eliezer Brodt פירוש התורה לרבינו אברהם בן הרמב“ם, ספר בראשת, תרעח עמודים פירוש התורה לרבינו אברהם בן הרמב“ם, ספר שמות, תתלב עמודים מאמר על הדרשות ועל…
A nay bintl briv: Personal Reminiscences of Rabbi Israel Meir ha-Kohen from the Yiddish Republic of Letters
…others who did so as well); see Sefer she’elot u-teshuvot tsits eli‘ezer, 6:176-177 (no. 40, ch. 4). [38] See Israel Meir ha-Kohen, Sefer nidhei yisra’el (Warsaw: Meir Jehiel Halter and…
New Volume of Rav Ovadiah Yosef’s “Hazon Ovadiah,” on the halakhot of the Four Fasts, the Three Weeks, Nine Days, Tisha B’Av, and Zekher le-Hurban
…sefer just reached the seforim stores today, just in time for the three weeks. The newest volume of Chazon Ovadiah of the great gaon Rav Ovadiah Yosef. This sefer includes…
Some Observations Regarding the Mah Nishtannah
…le-Rav Natronai Gaon Al Pi Ketav-Yad Kadmon, in Sefer Yovel li-Chevod Morenu ha-Gaon Rabi Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveitchik Shelita, ed. S. Israeli, vol. 2, pp. 976-993, at p. 986. The…
