More on R. Kook’s Recently Published Writings
…the head, together with the tefillin shel rosh. This is the upshot of his comment to Gittin 58a.” I saw this comment of Maharam Schiff many years ago, and unfortunately did not…
Review of R. Yedidyah Tiyah Weil’s Levushi Badim: With An Eye Towards Yom Kippur
…R. Yonason Eybeschutz, and served as the Rav of Karlsruh, and as the Rosh Yeshiva there. He wrote much; however, aside for his Haggadah, nothing else was printed until 1977….
The Creative Craftsman: Adorning The Torah, One Crown At A Time
…Yehuda Finkel, Rosh HaYeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva and the son of the famed Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (the Alter of Slobodka) who went to Palestine; the Modzitzer Rebbe; Rabbi…
Hakirah, Metzitzah, and More
…didn’t become a rav or a rosh yeshiva . People in the haredi world can understand how not everyone is cut out to be a rosh yeshiva or sit in…
Marc Shapiro: What Do Adon Olam and ס”ט Mean?
…Spain. For example, R. David Abudarham, in the introduction to his work, attaches ס”ט to his name. Also, in Teshuvot R. Yehudah ben ha-Rosh, no. 75, two people sign with…
Torah & Rationalism – Writings of the Gaon Rabbenu Aaron Chaim HaLevi Zimmerman zt”l
…מישיבת טלז וסלובודקה. (ibid., pp. 613-614) [4] Noteworthy is Ratner’s own declaration that in preparation for his volume on mas. Rosh Hashanah he utilized Ginzberg’s Seride Yerushalmi on Rosh HaShanah:…היו…
Interview with Professor Lawrence Kaplan
…example. It’s really clear to me that initially many prominent American Roshei Yeshiva were upset at the way he was treated. I just reread the original ban on Rabbi Slifkin…
The Enigma of Abraham Rosenberg, R. Yitzchak Scheiner, Mordecai Kaplan, and Prof. Marvin Fox
…R. Scheiner does not mention that he attended Yeshiva College, or perhaps this was censored by Matzav.com: Where did the Rosh Yeshiva learn in his youth? HaRav Scheiner: I learned…
Response to Criticism, Part 3
…[!] התורה בתחלת מנותו היסודות With regard to the Thirteen Principles themselves, in R. Jacob Yitzhaki’s popular Sephardic Mahzor Oholei Yaakov: Rosh ha-Shanah, p. 59b, he states: .ובאמת גם הרמב”ם…
The Pew Report and the Orthodox Community (and Other Assorted Comments), part 1
…not the first woman who did something bad.”R. Asher Ben Jehiel, She’elot u-Teshuvot ha-Rosh 18:13, deals with a case of a woman who was intimate with a non-Jew and became…
The Vilna Gaon, part 2 (Review of Eliyahu Stern, The Genius)
…Yehoshua Ehrenberg, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Haderah yeshiva, one of R. Ehrenberg’s great sins is that he declared that “the” gadol ha-dor is not something that can be proclaimed in papal…
The Identity and Meaning of Chashmonai
…recorded between the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai regarding the number of blessings in the Amidot for Yom Tov and Rosh ha-Shanah when these fall on the…
Israel ben Shabtai [Hapstein]. ‘Avodat Yisrael – Book review by Bezalel Naor
…Rabbah, Beshalah [parashah 23] playing on the words “tashuri me-rosh Amanah” [Song of Songs 4:8].) It is a tribute to the originality of the Kozhnitser Maggid that while most Biblical…
Torah mi-Sinai and More
…figure. He is Rosh Yeshiva of the Hesder Yeshiva in Petah Tikva and a major personality in religious Zionism. (In the next installment of this series I will present further…
Should we celebrate birthdays or not? Is it better to ignore them?
…as we will see we can find anything and everything. GOOD MAZAL The Yerushalmi Rosh Hashana (III, 8) relates that Amalek placed soldiers on their birthday at the battle front…