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…the Vilna Goan’s commentary on Shulchan Orach Yoreh De’ah (lot 92) is among the many sifrei ha-Gra offered. The first edition of the Shulchan Orach is unique not only being…
In Praise of Ephemera: A Picture Postcard from Vilna Reveals its Secrets More than One Hundred Years after its Original Publication
…the Shulhan Arukh.[3] The inscription on its wall, and above the tombstone of R. Menahem Manes, reads: פה מצבת הגאון הגדול ר‘ מאנש חיות Here is the tombstone of the…
“New” R. Reuven Margoliyot Book
…picture is from R. Margulies’s book). The articles in these books include among others: Ha-Rambam v’HaZohar, Defusi haShulhan Arukh, Defusi haShulahan Ohrah haRishonim, Zionunei HaPesukim b’Talmud u-Midrashim, and Toledot Rebbi…
KEDUSHAH, KEDOSHAH, OR B’K’DUSHAH in KEDUSHAH D’YESHIVAH?
…parenthesized version is that of Abudraham. And, like nineteenth century Rabbi Yehiel Mikhel Epstein (Arukh HaShulhan, Orah Hayyim 59:10), former Chief Rabbi of Israel Ovadiah Yosef (Resp. Yabi’a Omer, Pt….
The Chanukah Omission
The Chanukah Omission by Eliezer Brodt Every Yom Tov has its famous questions that show up repeatedly in writings and shiurim. Chanukah, too, has its share of well-known questions. In…
A selection from Strictly Kosher Reading by Yoel Finkelman
…November, 2010. [15] See, for example, Shulhan ‘Arukh, Yoreh De’ah, 336:1. The ambivalence about seeking doctors, on the theory that divine providence governs illness and heath, was generally of theoretical…
The Book of Disputes between East and West
…the period of the Rishomin signified by the publication of the Shulhan Arukh. In general, the Babylonian side prevailed as their hegemony increased, but in a number of cases, the…
Legacy Auction, agunot, censorship, and other notable items
…weren’t as thorough as they should have been left the original title in the index. (lot 50). The version of the Shulkhan Arukh with the commentary Gur Areyeh that contains…
Interesting Legacy Judaica Auction lots
…R. Yechiel Michel Epstein (Arukh ha-Shulkhan) (lot 168), and the Netziv (lots 161-62), (there is also an amulet (lot 163) from his son, R. Chaim Berlin, that apparently was written…
The Enigma of Abraham Rosenberg, R. Yitzchak Scheiner, Mordecai Kaplan, and Prof. Marvin Fox
…numerals)? 2. Point to a halakhah on Pesach that the Shulhan Arukh decides in accord with the Rosh, while the Rama records the practice in accord with the Rif and…
Further Comments by Marc Shapiro
…letter also appear in his haskamah to R. Moshe Parzis’ Taharat Kelim (Bnei Brak, 2002). Another new source in this regard from Ratsaby is his Shulhan Arukh ha-Mekutzar (Bnei Brak, 2000),…
Foie Gras “Fake News”: A Fictitious Rashi and a Strangely Translated Ethical Will
…YD 33) was in favor of banning force feeding because of this potential serious problem. The Aruch Hashulchan (YD 33:37) says they did not do force feeding in his town….
Lag B’Omer through the eyes of a Litvak in 1925
…again from Lag B’Omer until the Sh’loshes Yemei Hagbala [13 days], thus never allowing the beard to grow too long. See Aruch HaShulchan (493:6) where he confirms this to be…
In Search of Memory:Towards an Understanding of Baladhur
…“old people” quoted by Meir Benayahu has some support. The Shulhan Arukh writes that if a bird eats something that punctures its intestines, for example, a branch of chulsis, the…
The Kabbalat Shabbat Memorandum by Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber
…full beard; something that obviously excludes women, (Shulhan Aruch 53:6). The reason given is the dignity of the congregation, kevod ha-tzibbur, which is clearly irrelevant in present day society. Both…