The Head Movements of Shema’
…is a requisite of the concentration and brings it about (tsorekh ha-kavvanah ve-goremet otah).”[9] Rabbi Joshua Boaz Baruch (Italy, d. 1557) offers a very graphic description of the head movements…
Guide and Review of Online Resources – 2022 – Part II
…Musaf Aruch. Also at Sefaria: R’ Isaiah Berlin’s Hafla’ah ShebaArakhin on Sefer HeArukh. Academy of Hebrew language’s online dictionary . In Modern Hebrew. Based on Milon HaHoveh (מילון ההווה). Does…
Review of Shaul Stampfer, Families, Rabbis & Education
…share the same assumptions as our predecessors 3. With regard to R. Baruch Epstein’s discussions about his uncle the Netziv in Mekor Barukh, the irony is that the Netziv thought…
A Compromise in Halacha – On Menachot 33a
…is based on the Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 289:6 צְרִיכָה לִהְיוֹת זְקוּפָה, אָרְכָּהּ לְאֹרֶךְ מְזוּזַת הַפֶּתַח….. הַגָּה: וְכֵן נָהֲגוּ. (בֵּית יוֹסֵף) אֲבָל יֵשׁ אוֹמְרִים שֶׁפְּסוּלָה בִּזְקוּפָה, אֶלָּא צְרִיכָה לִהְיוֹת שְׁכוּבָה, אָרְכָּהּ לְרֹחַב מְזוּזַת הַפֶּתַח (טוּר וְהַפּוֹסְקִים בְּשֵׁם…
Guide and Review of Online Resources – 2022 – Part I
…Talmud (with commentaries); articles about Jewish law and customs; Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with main commentaries; Zohar, Midrashim, and the Talmudic Encyclopedia.” Primary texts – scanned Mostly…
Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dunner (1913-2007), the final surviving musmakh of the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary
…all four sections of the Shulchan Aruch. He was granted the title yoreh yoreh, yadin yadin. Professor Shapiro further noted that This appears to be the first time that the…
How Dare You Translate Kabbalah!
…primarily the Halachic texts.[28] He absolutely refused to endorse any translated text as he put it “especially in the current times when translations already exist of the Shulchan Aruch, the…
Towards a Bibliography of seforim related to Shavous and Megilas Rus (new and old)
…The only custom he mentions that is unique to Shavous is saying Azharot. Rabbi Yosef Caro in both of his works, Beis Yosef and Shulchan Aruch pretty much follows in…
The Pesach Drasha of the Rokeach
The Pesach Drasha of the Rokeach by Eliezer Brodt By way of introduction, in the Shulchan Aruch it is written that thirty days before Pesach one should learn the halachos…
Evening Prayer Revisited
…does not have to follow immediately after. The practice of all Jews today is to follow R. Yochanan. Most Rishonim[1] and the Shulchan Aruch rule like R. Yohanan and indeed…
Toil of the Mind and Heart: A Meditation in Memory of Rabbi Yehoshua Mondshine
…“Shulchan Aruch Admur” in Sofrim Ve-seforim Vol. 2 (Tel Aviv: Hotza’at Sefarim Avraham Tziyoni, 1959), 9-21 [Hebrew], translated and adapted by the present writer as, ‘Systematization, Explanation and Arbitration: Rabbi…
Satmar From As Seen By An Insider: A Review of the New English Biography of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe
…intentions that the money should be used for a specific purpose, the money cannot be used for any other purpose. See Rama; Yoreh De’ah 256:4; Shach ibid. s”k 10; Shulchan…
Bein hashemashot: A Reevaluation of the Texts Part IV
…Shulchan Aruch and Rabbeinu Tam. While I have not seen this conceptualization formulated explicitly (Throughout R. Kapach’s commentary on Mishneh Torah, however, he asserts that this is the position of…
Hebrew Dictionaries
…Arukh. R. Yosef Toemim, author of the Peri Megadim, states that the commentary that one should use when studying the Arukh is Marikh haMarkhot -the commentary d’Aquin. [There is no…
The First Artichoke Controversy of 2012
…used as Maror. However, the textual evidence is weak. Sefer Ha’arukh is a dictionary, not a responsum, a legal code or a gloss to one, like Hagahot Maimoniyot which identifies tamkha as horseradish – chrayn, associated with…