Benefits of the Internet: Besamim Rosh and its History
…remarkable. Some years later, in 1789, a work with the putative author listed listed as Ovadiah bar Barukh and titled Mitzpeh Yokteil [2] was published to counter R. Raphael Cohen’s Torat…
Review of Kedushat Aviv: Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l on the Sanctity of Time and Place
…parts. These works can be classified according to their various approaches. Some authors attempt to turn an obscure topic into a “Shulchan Arukh” (e.g., the Minchat Kohen on the laws…
Benjamin Richler: “Putting the Pieces Together: The ‘discovery’ of Gershon b. Meir Heilprin (Heilbronn)”
…מפתח האוצר, p. 324.[2] Steinschneider listed the following works by the author, Gershon[3]: דבר הלכה; בדי שולחן on Shulchan Arukh; חיקור דין responsa; דבר תורה on the Torah ; מאמר…
תיובתות דחפץ חיים תיובתות – עלומות בשולי ההדפסה הראשונה של המשנה ברורה חלק א
תיובתות דחפץ חיים תיובתות – עלומות בשולי ההדפסה הראשונה של המשנה ברורה חלק א מנשה קפלן, רחובות Copies of the 1884 of the Mishnah Berurah first printing aren’t identical. Working…
A Footnote on What the Chasam Sofer Did Not Say
…Torah, Notes on the Shulchan Arukh, Poetry, personal letters, and more), all still being published – and always in better editions – to this very day. The Solution. What remains…
Yehuda Azoulay’s Maran: The Life and Scholarship of Hacham Ovadia Yosef
…follow the Shulhan Aruch, and since every group of Jews knows that varying customs are all holy, there is no concern that one will violate the prohibition of splitting the…
“A Woman Is Not an Elephant”
…ששהה ל’ יום באדם אינו נפל[1]The Shulhan Aruch, following the preponderant opinion of the Poskim, accepts the ruling of רבה תוספאה: האשב שהיה בעלה במדינת הים ושהה שם יותר מי”ב…
Wine, Women and Song – Part III
…stance toward Immanuel’s verse is eloquently expressed by Rav Baruch Epstein, who cites one particular stanza as the archetype of the immoral and unholy admixture of the sacred and the…
Jews, Drinking & Kiddush Clubs
…drinking for the purposes of tikkun. The parody is titled Sefer ha-Tikkun and is a “Shulhan Orakh” on all the various times and occasions to make a tikkun. See Baruch…
Purim roundup
…Kalonymus’s Massekhet Purim to the very rare Sefer Ha-kundas, a 19th century parody of the laws of trouble-making in the style of the Shulhan Aruch. The Origins of Hamentashen in…
“Is taking my husband not enough?” (Gen 30:15)
…command to marry Leah, because our forefather Jacob followed the law as codified in Shulhan ‘Arukh (Yore De’a, end of no. 240) that a son does not have to obey…
Review of Jay R. Berkovitz’s The Pinkas of Metz
…in Shulhan `Arukh, basing himself on an earlier source: “There is no need to write the rationales and proofs, we only write for them [i.e., for the litigants] the claims…
The Anatomy of a Mystery: Kohanim, Dissection, and Medical Training Throughout History
…attend to their burial). [16] Shulhan Arukh, Y. D., 370. [17] Vom Stamme Aaron und dessen angeblichen Vorrechten: ein Beytrag zum Judenwesen. David and Son: Jerusalem,1817), 27-29. [18] There was…
Eliezer Brodt – A Lively History of Reprinting Rabbeinu Yeruchem
…Shulhan Arukh. The Maggid (an angel who learned torah with the Beit Yosef) of the Beit Yosef told him ואוף ירוחם טמירי רחים לך אע”ג דאת סתיר מלוי בגין דמלאכת…
The Eighth and Final Volume of Daniel Sperber’s Minhagei Yisrael Has Appeared
…Tur/Shulhan Arukh. The second index is done topically. Aside from the index, this volume includes a rather nice introduction where Professor Sperber discusses most of the recent literature on minhagim….