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…
