More on Chaim Bloch
More on Chaim Bloch By Marc B. Shapiro In a previous post I mentioned how the non-Jewish Austrian minister Leon Bilinski was descended from the rav of Posen, R. Samuel…
Visiting Zoos in Halacha
…York 2002, pp. 64–67. 24. Benjamin Cymerman, The Diaries of Rabbi Ha’im Yosef David Azulai, Jerusalem 1997. 25 This work has been explored very carefully in a few recent works,…
Kosher Tube: TV Series on the 13 Principles
…“stars” myself, David Novak. Benjamin Hecht, Shalom Carmy, Eliezer Breitowitz, Mayer Schiller, and Leib Tropper. (If you can’t tolerate, or figure out, the game played by the girls in the…
Response to Criticism Part 4; Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and the Hazon Ish
Response to Criticism Part 4; Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and the Hazon Ish Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here. 1. In Limits,p. 14 n. 55, I write I should call attention…
Approbations and Restrictions: Printing the Talmud in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam and Two Frankfurts
…edition and with one new approbation, from R. Jacob ben Benjamin Katz (Poppers, Shav Ya’akov) (1719). Another example of the continuity of the two editions is that the volumes issued in…
Ha-Osek be-Mitzvah Patur min ha-Mitzvah: The Case of Prayer and Torah Study
…it is also worth reading Benjamin Blech’s article “Personal Growth or Communal Responsibility: A Question of Priorities,” The Torah U-Madda Journal 2 (1990), 134–142. However, to give a slightly different…
The Writings of R. Hayyim Gulevsky, Part 2
…to summarize it. Regarding R. Benjamin Fleischer, many of whose books are now on HebrewBooks.org, Gulevsky says the following (p. 46): טיפוס מיוחד במינו היה הרה”ג העצום רבי בנימין שלייפער…
The Rogochover and More: Excursus on Fasting
…dark. This practice was defended by R. Benjamin Zvi Auerbach in his Nahal Eshkol, Hilkhot Tisha be-Av, p. 16 n. 1. I have heard from R. Chaim Greisman, the Chabad…
The Identity and Meaning of Chashmonai
…is to link the name with Chushim of the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned at I Ch. 8:11. [34] The probable implication of the second part of verse 32 is that…
Christian M. Rutishauser on Being Drawn to the Rav
…depth the works of such German-Jewish philosophers as Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Walter Benjamin, I was somewhat disappointed, for I did not find Soloveitchik to be as…
R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin, Kitniyot, R. Judah Mintz, and More
…On pp. 251ff., R. Waxman deals with Menahem Mendel Lefin’s Heshbon ha-Nefesh, an influential mussar text which as many know was influenced by a work of Benjamin Franklin. 6. I…
R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin and the Army, and Joe DiMaggio
…pseudonym as belonging to R. Isser Zalman Meltzer, and refers to its use in Yagdil Torah, the journal published by R. Meltzer and R. Moses Benjamin Tomashoff. Chajes does not offer…
Guide and Review of Online Resources – 2022 – Part II
…Transcribed, with hyperlinked Table of Contents. Tyndale House: here. Scanned, with hyperlinked Table of Contents. R’ Natan of Rome, Sefer HeArukh, ed. Lublin 1883, on Sefaria. Includes R’ Benjamin Mousafia’s…
Zvi Hirsch Masliansky: Memoirs from the Hebrew Periodical Ha-Doar
Zvi Hirsch Masliansky: Memoirs from the Hebrew Periodical Ha-Doar By Zviah Nardi Introduction. Zvi Hirsch Masliansky, known as “The National Preacher” (1856-l943), was a member of the Hibbat Zion movement in Russia…
What Became of Tychsen?: The Non-Jewish ‘Rabbi’ and his “Congregation” of Jewish Medical Students
…(1764), Israel Joseph Meyer (1765), Justus Zadig de Meza, Isaac Heinrich Salomonsen (1783),Wolff Levinsohn (1783), Abraham Levin Spira (? Benjamin Levin, 1773), Simon Marcus (1771) and Moses Marcus(1785, son of…