Mezuzah Revisited. Parshat Vaetchanan.
…his words[14] and a possible justification for the old minhag in Europe[15]. Needless to say our words are only theoretical and Baruch Hashem that minhag has disappeared a long time…
[1]: א״ל הקב״ה … יודע אני כוונתו של אהרן היאך היתה לטובה On a Short Wedding Wish to the Lichtensteins from the Pen of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg
…Esti Rosenberg here (listen at about 8:45) and Rabbi Baruch Gigi here (listen at about 16:30) and the former’s interview with Yair Sheleg, “Yaledah ahat mul 700 otobusim.” Finally, see…
Modesty and Piety: Improving on the Past
…scholarly books to the heritage of German Jewry. The volumes are noteworthy also for their rich illustrations, but one in particular catches the eye. A chapter dedicated to Baruch Kahana…
Organizing the Mitzvot and the Sefer Ha-Chinukh
…of R. Joshua Boaz b. Shimon Baruch, which essentially footnotes the Talmud and provides cross-references for where the Talmudic ruling is codified in those works. The Ein Mishpat was incorporated…
“Whence Worry?” – On the Murky Trail Of An Aphorism
…fairly certain that this is a misattribution. Wolf2191 points out another apparent misattribution; Rav Baruch Epstein ascribes authorship to Shelah, but unfortunately provides no source: ולפעמים כשהיה אבי זקני רואה…
Torah Genius, Infallibility and Augmented Intelligence
…R. Baruch of Kosov, R. Pinchas Eliyahu Horowitz of Vilna, R. Yaakov Emden, in their understanding that Yosher Levav physicalized God, on p. 865, fn. 464. A second error by…
Review of Ha-Sefer ha-Kollel (Kitāb al-Ḥāwī) by Rabbi David ben Saʿadya al-Ger
…the latter, see Yaakov Miller, “Responsa of Our Rabbi Isaac son of Rabbi Baruch on the Matter of Collecting Debts from Orphaned Estates,” Kovetz Hitzei Giborim, vol. 7 (2014): 18-34,…
No, Achashverosh Never Served a Stable-Boy
…of a king or another wealthy individual, and so explain Rashi (to Megilah,[7] Bava Metziah, and Shabbat[8]) and Aruch (אהורייר).[9] As a result, Soncino and most Talmudic translations take the…
R. Chaim Vital and his Unknown Work Sefer ha-Pe'ulot
…or Patai’s work on the subject. A few additional sources worth noting that Dandorovitz didn’t include: Mekor Baruch (3:1224) where R. Epstein has a amusing story about the subject. According…
“Praiseworthy are You Talmidei Chachamim” – Self-Definition, Torah Study, and Jewish Martyrdom
…handful; whether the Talmudic teaching should be taken literally is outside the scope of this essay (but see Tosafot and Aruch La-Ner, Nidda 36b and Hyman, Toldot Tanaim Ve-Amoraim, 152)….
Tikkun Olam Revisited
…is that…the nations of the world adopt the standards that are normative for Jews.”[13] R. Bleich cites the positions of Rabbi Yaakov Ettlinger, the author of the Arukh Laner, Rabbi…
Hirschian Humanism After the Holocaust: An Analysis of the Approach of Rabbi Shimon Schwab
…in writing are R. Elhanan Wasserman, R. Barukh Ber Leibowitz, R. Avraham Yitzhak Bloch, and R. Yosef Rozen. Their replies are printed in Yehuda (Leo) Levi, Shaarei Talmud Torah (Jerusalem:…
Shnayer Leiman: Did a Disciple of the Maharal Create a Golem?
…Haifa, 1966, vol. 2, p. 184; and the entry in Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jerusalem, 1971, vol. 11, column 420. [15] See R. Barukh b. R. David of Gniezno, גדולת מרדכי, Hanau,…
The Gaon’s Impact on the Interpretation of both Primary Sugyot in Zemanim
…Ḥabad siddur, specifies 4 minutes. He reverses the position he took in Shulḥan Arukh HaRav, which supported Rabbeinu Tam. [29]See Zemanim Ke’hilkhatam by R. Boorstyn, chapter 2, section 3, where…
The Anatomy of an Auction: A Previously Undissected Body of Literature on the History of the Jews and Postmortem Dissection
…for the wedding of Saul Lustro and Allegra Barukh in 1676. See JTS Library B (NS)CR2. [20] The university admitted non-Catholics, which included, for example, both Protestants and Jews. On…