Ghosts, Demons, Golems and their Halachik Status
…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…
Caught in the Act: An Unknown Admission of Plagiarism
…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…
Churches, Ronald McDonald, and More
…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…
Names of Seforim I
…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…
R. Reuven Margulies II
…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,…
Maimonides and Prophecy, R. Pinhas Lintop, R. José Faur, and More Examples of Censorship
…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…
On the Plagiarism of a Tach-ve-Tat Chronicle
…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…
More About Rashbam on Genesis Chapter 1 and Further Comments about ArtScroll
…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…
Mehalekhet Bi-Darka – A Review Essay
…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…
Shavuah HaSefer: A Recommended Reading List
…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…
Marc B. Shapiro: Obituary for Prof. Mordechai Breuer zt”l
…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…
The Story of the Publisher of the Forged Yerushalmi Kodshim
…R. Baruch Oberlander has written a series of articles, which appeared in Or Yisrael, further illuminating this episode. Now, the great-grandson of the publisher (Ya’akov Weider who was killed in…
The Recently Published Photographs of Rav Yisrael Salanter: Real or Imaginary?
…Brak, 2014). [2] Many other witnesses could have been adduced. See, for example, R. Baruch Epstein, מקור ברוך (Vilna, 1928), vol. 4, pp. 1800-1804, for a vivid account of a…
Final Response
…heretic Baruch Spinoza.” I say this is comical since Grossman doesn’t have a clue as to what is going on here. The only way I can explain this is that…
Review of Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture by Shaye J.D. Cohen
…late-comers are allowed to join the party: the Fourth Book of Ezra and the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch, two works lamenting the destruction of the temple, and Greek synagogal prayers,…