Eliezer Brodt – The Origins of Hamentashen in Jewish Literature
…[10] Yalkut ha-Minhagim, pg. 210 [11] Hamachazeh Ha-Ivri, p. 76 n.654. [12] This source is also quoted in the Otzar ha-Lashon ha-Ivrit, however the editors simply describe it as a…
Eliezer Brodt: Corrections and Clarifications
…through all four volumes. In general before I write a review on a sefer I read the sefer cover to cover a few times carefully. Since this work has four…
The Ethics of the Case of Amalek: An Alternative Reading of the Biblical Data and the Jewish Tradition
…to the messianic period, see Moses b. Jacob of Coucy, Sefer Mitsvot Gadol (SeMaG), negative commandment #226; and R. David b. Zimra (RaDBaZ) with Maimonidean Glosses to Hilkhot Melakhim 5:5.This…
Rabbinic Insults and Bibliographical Errors
…only known copy with the leaf. Indeed, the existence of the leaf is not mentioned in Vingrad’s Otzar ha-Sefer ha-Ivri, Jersusalem: 1994, vol. II, Frankfort A.M. # 218. But, the…
On some new seforim, Copernicus, saying Ledovid , Moses Mendelssohn and other random comments
…the recent printer of this sefer did not realize who this was. The original author of this sefer is quoting the Meor Einayim from Rabbi Azariah Min Hadomim who is…
Hatikvah, Shir HaMa’alot, & Censorship
…Shivchei is in fact an abriged version of a longer work. That work, Sefer Hezyonot the Book of Visions, is in fact published. The Sefer Hezyonot was first published in…
