Hakirah, Metzitzah, and More
Hakirah, Metzitzah, and More Marc B. Shapiro Hakirah has performed a valuable service in dealing forthrightly with the matter of homosexuality. Issue no. 13 (2012) contains R. Chaim Rapoport’s “Judaism and…
New seforim and books
…תוכן העניינים. This sefer simply put is incredible. It does not come with an index instead you get a disk of the sefer fully searchable. ב. משנת ארץ ישראל…
New Feature – Listing of New Seforim
…Dov Schwartz on R. Mattityahu’s philosophy based upon this commentary. 3) HaNehmadim miPaz a 862 page work on everything and everything having to do with mitzvah of writing a sefer…
Kaddish – His Will
…in the prayer על הכל based on the Kaddish which is recited upon removing the Sefer Torah from the Aron Ha-Kodesh. In modern prayerbooks it is found among the Sabbath…
Shnayer Leiman: Notes on Rabbinic Epitaphs I
…destroyed. Despite all the claims otherwise, we do not know where Rashi (d. 1105), Ibn Ezra (d. 1164), R. Eleazar b. Yehudah of Worms, author of Sefer Rokeah (d. circa…
A selection from Strictly Kosher Reading by Yoel Finkelman
…‘Arukh, Yoreh De’ah, 240:20 and Rama, 245:10; Sefer Hasidim, 302, cited in Baumgarten, Mothers and Children, 162; R. Yeshayahu Horowitz, Shenei Luhot HaBerit (Jerusalem: n.p., 1975), Letter Daled, paragraph 23-32;…
