The Customs Associated with Joy on Chanukah and Their More Obscure Sources
…versions it only says שמחה and is lacking the key word משתה 2. Instruments and Jokes. As far as other aspects of Simcha on Chanukah in the Sefer Hamaskil (end…
Should we celebrate birthdays or not? Is it better to ignore them?
…the Mekor Chesed (Rav Reouven Margulies) on Sefer Chasidim (§213, note 1 ), it brings that the Yerushalmi (Yevamot VIII, 3) states that a plague occurs (at least) once every…
Who Wrote the Mekore Minhagim?(Part II)
…missing. Or later the ML says that something appears in the Sefer Shushan HaEdut and the Sefer Haradim and he has it as follows ואתי’ בס’ שושן עדות סי’ קפ”ז…
Review of R. Yedidyah Tiyah Weil’s Levushi Badim: With An Eye Towards Yom Kippur
…studying Sifrei Derush, but in this post I shall discuss one such sefer and how it helps us prepare for Yom Kippur. In 1988, the manuscript of the derashos Levushi…
A Review of Parashas Hamelech – Al Mitzvas Hakhel, by Rabbi Moshe Parnes
A Review of Parashas Hamelech – Al Mitzvas Hakhel, by Rabbi Moshe Parnes Reviewed by: Rabbi Moshe Maimon, Jackson, NJ Sefer Parashas Hamelech on the mitzvah of Hakhel offers a…
The Aderet (part 2); Sonya Diskin and R. Yitzhak Yeruham Diskin; Zvi Glatt; and a New Letter from R. Herzog
…Israel, and it was this focus on Eretz Yisrael that led him to write the sefer. From a halakhic perspective, the most important aspect of the sefer is the appendix…
