When Rav Kook Was the Kana’i (Zealot) and His Opponent the Melits Yosher (Advocate)
…(a rosh yeshivah in Telz and later head of his own yeshivah in Grodna) to be accepted as Rosh Yeshivah of Merkaz Harav in Jerusalem. Speaking in Rav Kook’s name,…
The Mysteries of Hoshana Rabbah
…The anonymous early Italian work Minhag Tov also describes this custom and says he has seen people practice it. His reasoning for it is interesting: on Rosh Hashanah, we are…
ArtScroll and More
…the Rosh. The printed version of the Rosh has been “corrected”, just like the text of the Talmud and Rif was “corrected”.[8] Why did printed editions of the Talmud begin…
R. Elazar Fleckeles’s Haggadah Maaseh BR’ Elazar
…beginning of the Haggadah, R’ Fleckeles deals with the famous question as to why there is no Beracha on Sipur Yetzias Mitzrayim, quoting a Shut Besamim Rosh on the topic…
Shaving on Chol HaMo’ad the Never-ending Controversy
…the Noda B’Yehuda was published, another book – which was controversial in its entirety – was published. This book, Besamim Rosh, (previous discussions here) was published in 1793 but attributed…
Tarnopol: A short-lived early 19th century Hebrew press
…ha-Torah; Tikkun Kriat Shema with the appropriate kavvanot; Tikkun shel Erev Rosh Hodesh; and Tikkun Malkhut on Rosh Ha-Shanah and Yom ha-Kippurim. Omitted are the approbations and Hannover’s introduction that…
