Index
…4 · Reichman, Edward 18 · Richler, Benjamin 3 · Ringel, Joseph 1 · Riskin, Shlomo 1 · Rosenes, Yaakov 2 · Rosenfeld, Joey 2 · Rosenfeld, Josh 4 · …
Moshe Samet and Manuscripts vs. Books
…movement and the Orthodox movement. The second post discusses the conference held in honor of Benjamin Richler, the head of the manuscript department at the Jewish National University Library at…
Book Sale 2019
…קפלן עורכים, $15 גיל וייסבלאי, קב ונקי – תחייתה של אמנות הספר העברי ברפובליקת ויימאר,$36 Benjamin Richler, Guide to Hebrew manuscript collections, Second revised edition, Israel Academy of Sciences and…
International Conference in Memory of Moritz Steinschneider
…(November 20-22, 2007). For the conference program, see here. Benjamin Richler and Charles H. Manekin, among others, will be presenting at the conference and Dr. Manekin will covering the conference…
Notes on the Book of Samuel, and the Eternal Sanctity of the Temple in Maimonidean Thought
Notes on the Book of Samuel, and the Eternal Sanctity of the Temple in Maimonidean Thought By Rabbi Avi Grossman avrahambenyehuda.wordpress.com Rabbi Label Dulitz, who passed away last week, was…
Rambam’s Response to the Inclusion of Chicken, Duck and Quail in Qaraite Cuisine
…1:14). The juxtaposition of the words ‘of every clean bird’ and ‘he offered burnt offerings’ thus proves that the only clean birds are turtledoves and pigeons. Benjamin Nahawandi One of…
Jewish Treasures From Oxford Libraries
…by Giles Mandelbrote; Edward Pococke (1604-1691) by Benjamin Williams; Robert Huntington (1637-1701) by Simon Mills and Cesar Merchan-Hamann; Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783) by Theodor Dunkelgrun; Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805) by Dorit…
A Mild Case of Plagiarism: R. Abraham Kalmankes’ Ma’ayan Ha-Hokhmah
…more properly labeled today as paragraphs. Thus, several of the “chapters” consist of no more than15 lines of print (and, sometimes, even less). Scattered throughout the book are occasional comments…
A Few Comments Regarding The First Woodcut Border Accompanying The Prague 1526 Haggadah
…Rokeah published in Fano in 1505.[6] But that title page is really one of the more basic forms of the title page, known as a “label title page” providing only…
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…
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…
Who was Reb Shlomo?
…rolled into one, with a touch of Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain.[1] Indeed, Shlomo just didn’t seem to fit into any restrictive defining label. Menachem Daum, in a video report…
The Anonymous Author of Tikkunei Zohar and Ra‘ya Mehemna: An Antinomian or a Radical Maimonidean?
…modern mystery novel by Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon [Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1998], p. 44.) One who found absolutely outrageous the labeling of the Mishnah as…
A nay bintl briv: Personal Reminiscences of Rabbi Israel Meir ha-Kohen from the Yiddish Republic of Letters
…Hafets Hayyim was penned by Benjamin Brown, “Ha-‘ba‘al bayit’: r. yisra’el me’ir ha-kohen, he-‘hafets hayyim’,” in Benjamin Brown and Nissim Leon (eds.), Ha-‘gdoylim’: ishim she-itsevu et penei ha-yahadut ha-haredit be-yisra’el…
Abraham Menahem ben Jacob ha-Kohen Rapa mi-Porto (Rapaport) Ashkenazi: A Renaissance Rabbi of Interest
…of the Minhah Belulah (B’nei Brak,1989) the women are more modestly covered. Yet another modest version of Abraham Menahem’s escutcheon was published in yet another recent work, this Benjamin Shlomo…