Jacob’s Dream: Reproducing a Talismanic Illustrated Title Page
…Jewish title pages appeared in the early seventeenth century. In 1693, the first depiction of Jacob’s dream graced a Jewish title page. That book, Sefer Rabbot, Midrash Rabba, with the…
Haftaros of Vayetze and Vayishlach – A Mistake Rectified
…Vitry,[2] Etz Chaim (written in London on the eve of the Edict of Expulsion),[3] Abudarham,[4] and the list of Rabbi Shmuel Hanagid, cited in the Sefer HaEshkol.[5] It is also…
Tarnopol: A short-lived early 19th century Hebrew press
…come to learn in the Beit ha-Sefer (yeshivah) which exists to educate the Benei Yisrael (Jewish children) of Tarnopol). Immediately below it is like text in Yiddish. The following page…
An Example of Three “Mahadurot” of Rashi
…in different places in the text. Instead of being in Parshas Tetzaveh as above, sometimes it was placed only at the end of Sefer Shemot (with a bit of a…
Summary of Jordan Penkower on reading Zekher or Zeikher Amalek
…another). R. David Kimhi, in his Sefer ha-Shorashim (in the manuscript versions), was the first to note the discrepancies regarding the pointing of these vowels in Sephardic biblical manuscripts. Under…
Mayim Hayyim, the Baal Shem Tov, and R. Meir the son of R. Jacob Emden
…R. Emden added his name. The reason is because the above quote from Sefer Hitavkut continues beyond the portion quoted and explains that the name Yisrael was added because it…
