Is there a rotten apple in the Tu-BeShevat Fruit Basket?
…source. See Brodt Halachic Commentaries to the Shulchan Aruch on Orach Chayim from Ashkenaz and Poland in the Seventeenth Century (PHD Bar Ilan 2015), pp. 68-69. The Mekor Chaim in…
Easing the Donkey’s Burden: Nitkatnu Hadorot or Nitgadlu?
…deterioration in Torah knowledge of successive generations as due to many factors including lack of spiritual breadth and lack of studiousness. [3] Ba’er Heytev, Shulchan Aruch, O.H. 558:3 [4] Shulchan…
A Review of Parashas Hamelech – Al Mitzvas Hakhel, by Rabbi Moshe Parnes
…the sefer is divided into three parts: The primary text is written in the style of a Shulchan Aruch with short, anonymous pronouncements given in the form of chapters (simanim)…
Bein hashemashot: A Reevaluation of the Texts Part III
…many if not almost all later rishonim, particular those following Ramban, adhere to 22.5 minutes. Interestingly, by the time of the Shulchan Aruch most authorities are united around 18 minutes,…
Barukh Dayan Ha-Emet. Rabbi Prof. Mordechai (ben Shamshon) Breuer (1921-2007)
Barukh Dayan Ha-Emet. Rabbi Prof. Mordechai (ben Shamshon) Breuer (also here), scion of the prominent German rabbinical family and world expert on Tanakh and on the Aleppo Codex, has passed…
Picturing Pandemic Prayer
…of healing and Your healing is truth. Because it is not the way of people to heal, but they have become accustomed. This passage has been codified in Shulchan Arukh,[11]…
