Can Orthodoxy Decide Its Own History?
…years – a יובל (which the Torah labels ” לעולם [forever]”) – to have enough of a cumulative effect to erase one world and bring a new society in its…
ArtScroll’s Response and My Comments
…we know started Shabbat on Saturday morning.[32] Benjamin of Tudela records meeting sectarians in Cyprus, again presumably Mishawites, who indeed observed the Shabbat in this fashion.[33] In the last paragraph of…
Slobodka
…Ravitzki, and Professor Benjamin Brown, who has followed my research for many years with steady wisdom and generous counsel. Introduction On Mussar and the Development of the Mussar Movement within…
The Anatomy of a Mystery: Kohanim, Dissection, and Medical Training Throughout History
…Talmudicis, inaugural Dissertation 1743 Benjamin Wolff Gintzburger was one of the first Jewish graduates of the University of Gottingen. It was my search for references to Gintzburger that precipitated this…
Joshua Berman: What Orthodoxy Can Gain From Academic Biblical Studies
…a Concept of Social Justice,” in Social Justice in the Ancient World, eds. K. D. Irani and M. Silver (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1995), 26. [3] Aristotle, Politics, 1:5 (1254a20) [Benjamin…
Afikoman – “Stealing“ and Other Related Minhagim
…as well. For example, in his informative memoir about life in Lithuania in the 1880s, Benjamin Gordon describes stealing the afikoman with the help of his mother,[6] and going back…
