Milah Books & Manuals
Milah Books & Manuals by Eliezer Brodt & Ish Sefer Much has been written on milah. Hebrew Books has over forty seforim on this topic. There are those books that…
The Cup for the Visitor: What lies behind the Kos Shel Eliyahu?
…Richard Cohen, Jewish Icons, (1998), pp. 90-100; U. Schubert, Emunos HAsefer HaYehudit (1993); Marc Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination (2011), especially, pp. 80-84. [33] Minhaghei Yisroel…
Jewish Communal Workers, Preacher’s Kid Syndrome, and Sefer Shmuel
Jewish Communal Workers, Preacher’s Kid Syndrome, and Sefer Shmuel [1] By Rabbi Akiva Males This article is dedicated to the memory of HaRav Gedalia Dov Schwartz, zt”l, – whose 5th…
Sinful Thoughts: Comments on Sin, Failure, Free Will, and Related Topics Based on David Bashevkin’s new book Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought
…p. 301). For a more kabbalistic approach, see Sefer Yam Ha-Chochma (5778, p. 152 – 153, based on Maharal, Be’er HaGolah chapter 2). [36] See also Rabbi Yehoshua Oshinsky, Sefer…
Post on my sefer
Announcing The Publication of Eliezer Brodt’s Bein Kesah L’Asurby Eliezer Brodt This post is not a review of a sefer as one can not review ones own sefer. Rather it…
Cherubim: Winged Celestial Beings on the Title-Pages of Early Hebrew Books
…The title-page states that it is, Sefer Avkat Rokhel Printed by the printers named at the end of the volume. Edited with great care, with all our ability, “the good…
Dovid Bashevkin – Perpetual Prophecy: An Intellectual Tribute to Reb Zadok ha-Kohen of Lublin on his 110th Yahrzeit
…Press, 1989). [28] Haym Soloveitchik, “Three Themes in Sefer Hasidim,” 313. [29] Ibid., 314. [30] “Introduction,” in Judah Wistinetzki, ed., Sefer Hasidim (Berlin: M’kize Nirdamim, 1891), trans. Soloveitchik, in ibid.,…
No more Bentchers: A Review of a Sefer Given as a Wedding Gift
…some of which appeared in Or Yisroel and Yeshurun dealing with many areas of learning and history. The sefer contains four sections: section one is the sefer Ashes Chayil from…
Hasidism in America
…apparently only thirteen years old, see Gedulat Pinhas (Brooklyn, 1999), p. 14; Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel, Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri: Be-Sha’arei ha-Defus (Jerusalem, 2014), p. 65. At a future time I can discuss the rabbis…
Renewal of the Hakhel Ceremony in Jerusalem and New York
…person in 2008 at the last Zecher LeHakhel he attended before his passing in 2013. [5] See Yaakov S. Spiegel, Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri / Chapters in the History of…
Censorship: The Autobiography of R. Eliyahu David Rabinowitz, ADeReT
…contain pilpul. She was fluent in many responsa. She also studied the Sefer Hassidim daily.” She was so well-versed in Sefer Hassidim that her father, when he was unsure of a…
Was Avraham a Lamdan?
…the sefer Torah Temimah, as well as the still-incomplete Torah Shleimah. [7] However, these commentaries, in their comments on Sefer Bereishis, do not systematically try to harmonize the actions of…
Review of Dovid Bashevkin’s Sefer Berogez Racheim Tizkor
…Bashevkin has written a Sefer uniquely appropriate for the nature of ours[1]. Take a trip to your local Jewish bookseller during this time period, and you will find numerous seforim,…
Lawrence Kaplan’s review of Eliyahu Stern, The Genius
…But see Yaakov S. Spiegel, ‘Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri: Hagahot u-Magihim (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 1996), p. 390, n.26. Stern, p. 223, n.100, appears to allude to this comment of the…
Review of Quntres
…Mossad ha-Rav Kook, 1991), vol. 2, p. 56 n.26; D. Sperber, Netivot Pesikah (Jerusalem: Reuven Mass, 2008), pp. 104-14; Y.S. Spiegel, Amudim be-Tolodot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri Ketivah ve-Hataka (Ramat Gan: Bar…