Review of Dovid Bashevkin’s Sefer Berogez Racheim Tizkor
…and fear at the same time is discussed extensively in the context of the nature of the day of Rosh Hashana. See Rav Eliezer Menachem Man Shach, Michtavim Uma’amarim (volume…
R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, Tikkat Shofar on Shabbat & plagiarism (of course)
Menachem Mendel has a very good post discussing the issues and the history regarding the propriety of blowing the shofar on Rosh HaShana when it falls on Shabbat. A central…
Interview with the Authors of “The Science Behind the Mishnah”
…The work has garnered enthusiastic endorsements from some of Eretz Yisroel’s leading English-speaking roshei yeshiva, including Rav Asher Weiss, Rav Yitzchak Berkovitz, Rav Shaya Karlinsky, and Rav Avishai David. In…
Marc B. Shapiro: A Tale of Two Lost Archives
…Yehezkel’s son and current Rosh Yeshiva of Hevron (the Geula branch) if it is true that his father once spoke harshly to R. Zevin about Habad. He told me that…
Pandemic Bibliopenia: A Preliminary Report of Disease Eradication
…Lev, vol 1, E. H., n. 57, p. 114b Hayyim Biyad n. 79, p. 98a In a letter to Rabbi Hayyim Yehudah Avraham, published in the latter’s Ahi vaRosh[20] Palachi…
A Tribute to Rav Shlomo Elyashiv, Author of Leshem Shevo v-Achloma: On his Ninetieth Yahrzeit
…Foundational Text Within the Hasidic world of contemporary Kabbalah study, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern – rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Torat Chochom – has consistently incorporated the works of the Leshem…
Of Clowns, Giants, Mules, and Centaurs: The Enigmatic Anah
…[25] Vayishlach 178b [26] Rabbi Nathan Adler, Nesinah La’Ger [27] 14,5 [28] Bereishes Rabba 26,7 [29] Genesis 6,4 [30] See Rokeach; Midrash brought by M.M. Kasher, Torah Sheleimah; Rosh; Ibn…
Kabbala, Halakha and Kugel: The Case of the Two Handed Blessing
…R. Abele in 1806 R. Landau took over the position as Rosh Av bet Din of Vilna.[8] The position was first offered to R. Akiva Eiger but he turned it…
Review of a new edition of the Sefer Chasidim
…Nitzozei Or p. 158) proving that sometimes it says Rosh Hashanah and it refers to Yom Kippur affirming the statement in the Sefer Chasidim –again no mention at all on…
Book Review: Rav Aharon Lichtenstein’s Minchat Aviv
…essays authored by HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and 2014 Israel Prize laureate for Torah literature, is cause for celebration for all lovers of Torah. For…
Eliezer Brodt – A Lively History of Reprinting Rabbeinu Yeruchem
…of the 14th century) who was a student of R. Asher ben Yechiel (Rosh), R. Shlomo ben Aderet (Rashb”a), and R. Abraham ibn Ismaeil – author of Chiddushei Talmid HaRashb”a…
The Pew Report and the Orthodox Community (and Other Assorted Comments), part 2
…Rosh Ha-Shanah (and tavo alav berakhah if one can abstain for the entire Ten Days of Penitence), Hoshana Rabbah, the three days preceding Shavuot and also on Shavuot, from Rosh…
Reuven Elitzur, Saul Lieberman, and Response to Criticism, part 2
…an explicit passage of the Talmud in Rosh ha-Shanah 17a which lists these three classes of heretics as those who lose their portion in the World to Come. They are…
“Ask Rabbi Google”!! ??
…common knowledge is like a Rav Moshe! For all his prescience I am not sure that the Rosh Yeshiva Z’l understood then in 5747 (1987) that what he was also…
Marc B. Shapiro: Obituary for R. Yosef Buxbaum zt”l
…examine a responsum of the Rosh, Rashba, Rivash and so many others the Machon Yerushalayim edition is the only place to turn. Another great achievement — and it remains to…