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…the Vilna Goan’s commentary on Shulchan Orach Yoreh De’ah (lot 92) is among the many sifrei ha-Gra offered. The first edition of the Shulchan Orach is unique not only being…
In Praise of Ephemera: A Picture Postcard from Vilna Reveals its Secrets More than One Hundred Years after its Original Publication
…the Shulhan Arukh.[3] The inscription on its wall, and above the tombstone of R. Menahem Manes, reads: פה מצבת הגאון הגדול ר‘ מאנש חיות Here is the tombstone of the…
A selection from Strictly Kosher Reading by Yoel Finkelman
…November, 2010. [15] See, for example, Shulhan ‘Arukh, Yoreh De’ah, 336:1. The ambivalence about seeking doctors, on the theory that divine providence governs illness and heath, was generally of theoretical…
The Book of Disputes between East and West
…the period of the Rishomin signified by the publication of the Shulhan Arukh. In general, the Babylonian side prevailed as their hegemony increased, but in a number of cases, the…
The Chanukah Omission
The Chanukah Omission by Eliezer Brodt Every Yom Tov has its famous questions that show up repeatedly in writings and shiurim. Chanukah, too, has its share of well-known questions. In…
The Enigma of Abraham Rosenberg, R. Yitzchak Scheiner, Mordecai Kaplan, and Prof. Marvin Fox
…numerals)? 2. Point to a halakhah on Pesach that the Shulhan Arukh decides in accord with the Rosh, while the Rama records the practice in accord with the Rif and…
