The Rogochover and More: Excursus on Fasting
…on Yom Kippur פחות מכשיעור. See his haskamah to R. Baruch Pinchas Goldberg, Penei Barukh (Jerusalem, 1985), where he writes: כיום הזה שנחלשו הדורות, ועשרות רבות של נשים מפילות ע”י…
The Rav as a Mechadesh Halacha: One Small Example From Shabbat Rosh Chodesh
…the prayers from the chazzan. Shulchan Aruch OC 124:10 codifies the rule in Shabbat 24a and Shulchan Aruch OC 126:3 codifies the exception in Brachot 30b. שולחן ערוך אורח חיים…
The Ethics of the Case of Amalek: An Alternative Reading of the Biblical Data and the Jewish Tradition
…Not dealing with messianic reality, the subsequent codes, Arba‘ah Turim and the Shulkhan Arukh, make no mention of Amalek’s elimination only the possible (!) requirement of reading it from the…
Book Review: Yosie Levine, Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate
…the son of the famed Habad halakhist Rabbi Abraham Hayyim Na’eh, author of Ketsot ha-Shulhan (on Shulhan ‘Arukh Harav). Rabbi Barukh Na’eh authored two volumes of Gemara Shelemah Pesahim. Inter…
Who can discern his errors? Misdates, Errors, Deceptions, and other Variations in and about Hebrew Books, Intentional and Otherwise: Revisited
…of internal censorship is to be found in R. Solomon Ganzfried’s (1804–1886) Kizzur Shulḥan Arukh. First printed in 1864, that work an abridgement of the Shulhan Arukh for the average…
Kitniyot and Mechirat Chametz: Paradoxical Approaches to the Chametz Prohibition
…can forego the entire transaction by simply referencing the existence of a key. R. Yechiel Epstein (Arukh ha-Shulchan 448) also rules that the mere identification of the key’s location is…
