Taliban Women and More
…of these comments appear in non-halakhic contexts, but there are plenty that are found in classic halakhic works. See for example Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh Deah 198:48, where R. Moses Isserles states that…
The Agunah Problem, Part 1; Incarceration and Free Speech
…wife. [16] It appears that the Arukh ha-Shulhan derived reason 2 from a formulation in the Sefer Agudah. However, R. Yosef Goldberg argues that the Arukh ha-Shulhan is mistaken and that the Sefer Agudah cannot be seen as…
The Rogochover and More: Excursus on Fasting
…on Yom Kippur פחות מכשיעור. See his haskamah to R. Baruch Pinchas Goldberg, Penei Barukh (Jerusalem, 1985), where he writes: כיום הזה שנחלשו הדורות, ועשרות רבות של נשים מפילות ע”י…
The Rav as a Mechadesh Halacha: One Small Example From Shabbat Rosh Chodesh
…the prayers from the chazzan. Shulchan Aruch OC 124:10 codifies the rule in Shabbat 24a and Shulchan Aruch OC 126:3 codifies the exception in Brachot 30b. שולחן ערוך אורח חיים…
The Ethics of the Case of Amalek: An Alternative Reading of the Biblical Data and the Jewish Tradition
…Not dealing with messianic reality, the subsequent codes, Arba‘ah Turim and the Shulkhan Arukh, make no mention of Amalek’s elimination only the possible (!) requirement of reading it from the…
Book Review: Yosie Levine, Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate
…the son of the famed Habad halakhist Rabbi Abraham Hayyim Na’eh, author of Ketsot ha-Shulhan (on Shulhan ‘Arukh Harav). Rabbi Barukh Na’eh authored two volumes of Gemara Shelemah Pesahim. Inter…
Who can discern his errors? Misdates, Errors, Deceptions, and other Variations in and about Hebrew Books, Intentional and Otherwise: Revisited
…of internal censorship is to be found in R. Solomon Ganzfried’s (1804–1886) Kizzur Shulḥan Arukh. First printed in 1864, that work an abridgement of the Shulhan Arukh for the average…
Disputatious Divorces: Public Controversies over Gitten and Couple Relations
…and by both sides. Several works of responsa address this dispute, of those noted here, one was printed in Venice, R. Baruch Uziel ben Baruch Hazketto’s Hatzaah al Odot ha-Get,…
Kitniyot and Mechirat Chametz: Paradoxical Approaches to the Chametz Prohibition
…can forego the entire transaction by simply referencing the existence of a key. R. Yechiel Epstein (Arukh ha-Shulchan 448) also rules that the mere identification of the key’s location is…
Marc Shapiro: What Do Adon Olam and ס”ט Mean?
…translation of the Arukh ha-Shulhan, which will bring back the 1950’s and the “mimetic tradition”, this will put them in their place. As I state, it is not so easy…
German Orthodoxy, Hakirah, and More
…visited R. Esriel Hildesheimer and saw him giving a shiur in Tanakh and Shulhan Arukh before young women. R. Israel commented that if a rabbi from Lithuania would institute such a practice…
Rabbinic Portraits
…on an edition of the Shulhan Arukh. The edition to which they are referring to is the Shulhan Arukh printed in Mantua in 1721-23. This edition includes the standard commentaries…
The Netziv, Reading Newspapers on Shabbos & Censorship (Part Two)
…ובנביאים, בהם הייתה בקיאה למדי [טובה ברלין פפיש, ספר וולוז’ין, עמ’ 481 (= צלילים שלא נשכחו, עמ’ 55)]. Furthermore her father the author of the Aruch Hashulchan writes: נ”ל דכתבי העיתים אינם…
Beyond the Masthead of the Beys Yaakov Journal, 1923-1980 – Part 2: ‘Abomination’ or Scandal? Mistranslation, Journalism, and the Halivni Controversy
…“Ideological Labels Changing Along With the Label-Makers,” The New York Times (12 November 1970): 45,48; Israel Shenker, “Man and Machine Match Minds at M.I.T.: 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Seeks…
A Printing Mistake and the Mysterious Origins of Rashbi’s Yahrzeit*
…R. Jonathan Eybeschutz, the Ba’al ha-Tanyah, Reb Zadok ha-Kohen, and the Arukha ha-Shulhan also say that Rashbi died on Lag Ba-Omer. The Shem Aryeh (no. 14) writes that when we…