Quiz Answers; Response to Criticism; Rav Schwab Writes to the Rogochover
…note that while in Darkhei Moshe R. Isserles says that everyone agrees with this opinion, in the Shulhan Arukh he writes “some say”. The Beit Yosef, Even ha-Ezer 136, also…
Deciphering the Talmud: The First English Edition of the Talmud Revisited. Michael Levi Rodkinson: His Translation of the Talmud, and the Ensuing Controversy
…Shulkhan Arukh is forgotten, concluding that the best defense is to allow it to “plead its own cause in a modern language.” Others have attempted to translate it, for example,…
Kitniyot and Stimulants: Coffee and Marijuana on Passover
…and grasses are in rows, and everything is so clean, it is a testament to human intelligence. Every plant is labeled. There are plants from America, Portugal and Turkey all…
R. Nathan Nata ben Reuben David Tebele Spira and his Works: Among them Ma’amar Yayin ha-Meshummar, on the Prohibition against Drinking Stam Yeinam (gentile wine), and Contemporary Books on that Subject
…the wine, but one may benefit from this wine in other ways (e.g., it may be bought and sold). (See Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 123:26 and Shach 123:51.)[11] The Talmud and…
A Short Note Regarding an Illustrated Title Page and A Possible Unicum
…Rambam, Rashi, R Yosef Karo, Rama, and the author – on the Gur Areyeh, a commentary on Shulkhan Orakh, Mantua, 1722. There are two editions of this book printed within…
Open Orthodoxy and Its Main Critic, part 1
…nineteenth-century poskim, has a passage that is very difficult to understand. It appears in his commentary on the Shulhan Arukh, Hokhmat Shlomo, Hoshen Mishpat 426. According to R. Kluger, if…
Marc B. Shapiro – Forgery and the Halakhic Process, part 2
…that it is impossible for him to believe that R. Moshe never heard of Zioni since he is quoted in the commentaries on the Shulhan Arukh, and R. Moshe knew…
Baruch Oberlander — A Note on the New Edition of the Or Zarua
Rabbi Baruch Oberlander is the rabbi in Budapest, Hungary, since 1989, and is the editor of Tel Talpiot. He has published many articles in the journal Ohr Yisroel and is…
A Note Regarding Dayan Simcha Zelig Rieger’s View of Opening a Refrigerator Door on Shabbat
…to the one who performs it, and it is only incidental (psik resha d’lo nicha leh), no prohibition exists. Rabbi Rieger assumes that the lenient ruling of the Aruch (see Aruch defining the word…
Neturei Karta; ArtScroll, Arius, and Orangutans; Suicide and the Law of Rodef
…of all four sections of the Shulchan Aruch. He was granted the title yoreh, yadin. Instead of writing that R. Dunner studied at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary, Ha-Modia invented a…
The Valmadonna Broadside Collection: a Review Essay
…and discuss two candles for Shabbos.[10] The question is when exactly did people start lighting more? The exact time when this began is unknown. However, in the “Shulchan Aruch” from R’…
Comments on This and That, part 2
…the Rav gave the same pesak to NCSY, but I have not confirmed this. [13] See Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim 596:1; Sefer Zikaron Divrei Shelom Hakhamim (Jerusalem, 2003), p. 264….
Rav Gorelick, the Rav, and Revision by Omission
…appears in Mishulchan Rabi Eliyahu Baruch- Moadim, volume 2, p. 283, where a note mentions that it was prepared for print by Rav Elya Baruch’s son.) The halacha (Rambam Chanuka…
Assorted Comments on R. Jacob Emden, Ashkenazic Views of Sephardic Gedolim, and More
…although one may rule against the Shulchan Aruch, one should nonetheless seek to find hairsplitting differences between your ruling and the Shulchan Aruch’s so not to appear as if you…
Review of a new edition of the Sefer Chasidim
…(Yeshurun, vol. 4 p. 250). R Frumkin also records this statement from the Gra– R. Frumkin’s source is a manuscript of R. Yisrael of Shklov’s Pas haShulchan (Toldos Chachmei Yerushalim,…