…At the end of this volume, in a section devoted to corrigenda entitled Shulchan BaMidbar, the Chida noted that two words should be added to the concluding sentence of this…
…many famous works amongst them the Atzei Arazim (on Shulchan Orach Even Ezer) and Aztei Almughim (on eruv chaserios and netlayas yadaim). R. Chaim Volozhiner writes that after the Gra…
Response to Criticism, Part 3 Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here. Let me continue with Rabbi Herschel Grossman’s review. [1] This post will complete my response to around a quarter…
…not refer to Mahzor Vitri, Eshkol or Shulhan Shel Arba. Yet, even the Yalkut is only cited by Ratner on the preceding piece of Yerushalmi “מי שתוכף לסמיכה שחיטה”. On…
…Shulhan Orach Even haEzer quotes this law of R. Meir of Lublin (Even haEzer 6:17). The question of intercourse with a demon seems to have come up without respect to…
…Tzvi Landau discussing Landau’s book Shulhan Melachim (Beregovo, 1931). In his comments on Landau’s book, Schwartz discusses plagiarism in general and notes that he is a victim of plagiarism and…
…my attention by Mirsky). [24] Rav Kook (New Haven, 2014), p. 172. [25] Yad Shaul (Tel Aviv, 1953), p. 18. [26] Netivot Olam, ed. Pardes (Jerusalem, 1988), p. 508. [27] Shulhan Shlomo (Jerusalem, n.d.), p. 249. [28] John…
…and Turei Zahav commentaries on the Shulhan Orakh most are not aware who actually wrote these works. Instead, one would say “(the) Shach says” etc. Now if we were to…
…a pamphlet defending R. Eybeshuetz and in response Scholem produced his own disagreeing with R. Marguleis’s conclusions. R. Margulies also produced an annotated Shulhan Orach, Nefesh Hayiah which he lists,…
…Harim (Jerusalem, 1953), pp. 30-31. [11] Iggerot ha-Rav Nissenbaum (Jerusalem, 1956), p. 260 n. 7. [12] The picture first appeared in Shaul Shimon Deutsch, Larger than Life (New York, 1997), vol. 2, p. 204. [13] Perurim mi-Shulhanam…
…ha-Levi Segal, author of the commentary on Shulhan Orakh, Turei Zehav, sent a delegation to the false messiah, Shabbatai Tzvi, when the delegation entered, they record that Shabbatai Tzvi had…
…Aseret ha-Dibrot ve-Ta’amei Rut le-Rabbenu Shlomo mi-Würzberg,” Mi-Shulhan ha-Melakhim 4 (2006), p. 5. R. Yaakov Yisrael Stal hopes to soon publish one of R. Solomon’s works. See Sodei Humash u-She’ar…
…background information concerning the work and its author taken from Rabbi Baruch Epstein. The chapter on women and kaddish in Peuterkovsky’s book in replete with mistakes, and can’t be relied…
…time is Professor Robert Brodie’s Book on the Shiltos. Meketzei Nerdamim has released a new title – a collection of poetry from the father of the Aruch– R’ Yechiel it…
…has a descendant, R. Baruch Horovitz, who runs the fairly haredi Dvar Yerushalayim Yeshiva. In fact, when Rabbi Horovitz reprinted the Matteh Levi in 1979, he received a haskamah from…