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…
How Jews of Yesteryear Celebrated Graduation from Medical School: Congratulatory Poems for Jewish Medical Graduates in the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Unrecognized Genre
How Jews of Yesteryear Celebrated Graduation from Medical School: Congratulatory Poems for Jewish Medical Graduates in the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Unrecognized Genre Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD Edward Reichman,…
Israel ben Shabtai [Hapstein]. ‘Avodat Yisrael – Book review by Bezalel Naor
…6), “Barukh she-bahar bahem u-be-mishnatam.” As the Editors point out, the comment is not to be found in the Maggid’s remarks on Avot. Instead, they refer us to a parallel…
Book Review: The Koren Sacks Bilingual Edition of the Siddur
…regarding when one begins reciting “ve-ten tal u-matar”, the procedures for Birkat Kohanim in the daily prayer, the inclusion of a note to omit “Barukh Hashem le-Olam” from Ma’ariv in…
Dean of Historians of Jewish Philosophy: Necrology for Professor Arthur Hyman (1921-2017)
…I think it would not be amiss if I now conclude my remarks by applying these very same words to Professor Arthur Hyman, my own revered teacher. Yehi zikhro barukh. …
Chanukah Customs and sources
…Butler has a post here on some sources, however, one should add that there is now a full length sefer devoted to this topic, Yisrael Barukh Mestinger, Nitel U’Meorosav, 2000….
Review: Daniel Sperber, On Changes in Jewish Liturgy
…typo it should read Shmuel Askenazi. p. 36 see also D. Rabinowitz, “Rayna Batya and other Learned Women: A Reevaluation of Rabbi Barukh Halevi Epstein’s Sources,” Tradition 35 (2001). p….
Prof. Elliott Horowitz — Edmund Wilson, Hebrew, Christmas, and the Talmud
…be seen that before the oddly vocalized words “elmod lashon yisrael,” Wilson added, in the same square script, the blessing “barukh ata la-shem” – probably the first time these words…
Bibliography of Articles and Books on Nitel
…bibliography of the various editions of Iggeret R. Yochonon ben Zackai. Yisrael Barukh Messinger, Nitel uMerosroso, Union City, NJ, 251, [4] pages, 1999. This work is similar to the above…
Racy Title Pages
…example is a Mahzor published in Venice in 1710. This edition includes a depiction of semi-nude women right before the start of Barukh She’amar. From an artistic perspective this arguably…
Review of Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot He-Hadash
…entry lists many of those who record the story albeit with slightly different facts (they analyze the following sources: Beis Rebbi, Mekor Barukh, MiDor Dor, Medi Hodesh b’Hodsho, Imrei Shammai,…
Truth be Told[1] Comments on Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites its History by Marc B. Shapiro
…in R. Jacob Yehizkiyah Fisch, Titen Emet leYa’akov (Jerusalem, 1982), sec. 5, no. 36. [18] R. Jacob Ettlinger, Arukh leNer, Yevamot 65b, s.v. “she-Ne’emar avikha tsiva” and “Ko tomeru leYosef,” and R. Reuben Margaliot, Kunteres Hasdei Olam, sec. 1061, at…
Plagiarism, Citation, and Redemption
…book. 3. PLAGIARISM IN FULL: STEALING AN ENTIRE CHAPTER, WORD FOR (ALMOST) WORD In 1788 in Berlin, Barukh Linda (not to be confused with the plagiarist Reuven Landau) published a…