Publish and Perish or Digital death
…more to understand what we read. Therefore the market for the new editions of: Humashim, Mishnayot, Shasim, Turim and Shulkan Aruch etc. is healthy and growing. However the self publishing…
Hebrew printing in Altdorf: A brief Christian-Hebraist Phenomenon
…residence in Muelhausen, Alsace. He studied under R. Meir ben Baruch ha-Levi (c. 1320-1390), Sar Shalom of Neustadt (14th cent.), and R. Samson ben Eleazar. In 1389, Muelhausen was one…
Were the Ba’alei Tosafos Familiar with Aesop or Buddhism?
…the fox being chief among them), but we are only left with three of them. ↑ https://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2021/09/a-fox-fable-goes-digital-bialiks-classic-hebrew-story-for-children-finds-new-life-at-the-library-of-congress/ ↑ Eitz Yosef quotes Aruch who translates מוקרה as ‘its neck.’ It should…
The Twice Told Tale of R’ Yonasan Eybeshutz and the Porger
…פירוש on Shuchan Aruch Yoreh Deah, dealing with issues of treifos, basar b’chalav, taaruvos, etc. The sefer was published in 1763, a year before his death in 1764 in Altona,…
Sinful Thoughts: Comments on Sin, Failure, Free Will, and Related Topics Based on David Bashevkin’s new book Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought
…(Rozovsky, Sanhedrin 72b, note 309), Noda B’Yehuda, Tinyana, CM # 60, and Aruch Laner (Sanhedrin 73a). Even more questionable is why eidim zomimin (conspiring/falsified witnesses) are not an example of…
Rav Shmuel Ashkenazi: a Hidden Genius
…Butler, initiated a campaign to raise funds to publish R. Ashkenazi’s letters via the Seforim blog. Baruch HaShem, and thanks to the help of some readers, enough money was raised…
