Controversial Book on the Development of the Siddur
…is R. Ya’akov. [2] Satnow was not the only one; according to some, R. Saul Berlin, in the Besamim Rosh, offered similar hints to his authorship of this controversial work….
Listing of New Seforim
…a name that a wicked person had such as Yismael. The author does not cite to or quote the Shu’t Besamim Rosh on the topic. Whose pronouncement has broad implications…
Upcoming December Auctions
…R. Berlin was R. Saul Berlin’s (publisher of Besamim Rosh) father. Although not as rare as the blue paper Bomberg, Kestenbaum has a complete copy of the Slavita, 1817-22 Talmud…
Concerning the Zohar and Other Matters
…points to a post-rabbinic date. I also found that Saul Berlin notes, in the introduction to his Kasa de-Harsana (his commentary to Besamim Rosh), that unlike all other ancient Jewish…
Attack on Rabbinic Judaism and Historical Orthopraxy
…Saul Berlin the author of the noted forgery Besamim Rosh as the author of this. However, that has been discredited. In the end, whom ever the author maybe this work…
Neturei Karta; ArtScroll, Arius, and Orangutans; Suicide and the Law of Rodef
…Rosh and on!) dictate that one committing suicide be viewed as a victim rather than a perpetrator. Speaking of the laws of rodef, there is another astounding passage in R….
