Further Comments by Marc Shapiro
…manuscripts of his were lost. His grandson was Prof. Moshe Shulvass, and a responsum is addressed to him in Michaelson’s Tirosh ve-Yitzhar, no. 158. Schorr’s son was Dr. Alexander Schorr,…
The 1526 Prague Haggadah and its Illustrations
…the rosh yeshivah and av beis din of Prague in the 1520s. He also authored some notes to the Tur, which were printed by Gershom (Cohen) Katz in Prague in…
Adam Mintz — Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin: A Forgotten American Posek
…but did not speak. Rabbi Henkin was born in White Russia in 1881. He studied, primarily, in the yeshiva in Slutzk and spent ten years as a rabbi and rosh…
כעומד לפני השכינה בשעת ער לערנט: Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein on the Divide Between Traditional and Academic Jewish Studies
…le-illui nishmat Sima Belah bat Aryeh Leib, z”l. Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein enthusiasts might be surprised to learn that there was a time when the rosh yeshivah, zts”l, lectured publicly in…
Hayyim ben Benjamin Ze’ev Bochner: Kabbalist, Talmudist, and Grammarian
…tents of his palace” (Daniel 11:45) . . . The title-page is dated בו יגדל שלום (in which peace will grow, 431 =1661). The colophon is dated, Monday, Rosh Hodesh…
R. Hershel Schachter, Gedolim, Rachel Morpurgo, and More
…R. Schachter rejects the legitimacy of Daas Torah proclamations by roshei yeshiva who do not deal with practical halakhic questions.[5] In his halakhic-centric approach, there is no room for such…
Comments on This and That, part 1
…the rivers and places was what they gleaned from the G’moro or Midrosh about these places. What forces the translator to add this comment is that Tosafot rejects Rashi’s explanation…
Daniel J. Lasker – “December 6 Is Coming: Get Out the Umbrellas”
…Rabbeinu Asher ben Yehiel (Rosh, c. 1250-1328). He tried to establish the principle that each Jewish community would pray for rain when they actually needed it in their country; this…
The Aderet (part 2); Sonya Diskin and R. Yitzhak Yeruham Diskin; Zvi Glatt; and a New Letter from R. Herzog
…to retract his view. Also of note are the approbations from R. Avraham Shapiro and R. Shaul Yisraeli, roshei yeshiva at Merkaz ha-Rav. R. Yisraeli notes that Glatt, who could…
How many children did Michal have? Explanation of a Talmudic passage in light of the writings of Josephus Flavius
…other traditional commentaries. [2] Yad Ramah, Tosafot Harosh. [3] See Margoilyot Hayam. He therefore concludes that we must accept the shitah of Rabeinu Yeshaya on Shmuel (1:13:1) that the two…
A nay bintl briv: Personal Reminiscences of Rabbi Israel Meir ha-Kohen from the Yiddish Republic of Letters
…of Rosh Hashanah 5673 (September 13, 1912)[4] to his parents Rabbi Moses and Ruth, learned in his youth at the heder and yeshivah of Riteve (the latter founded by his…
Review: Bekurim with the Gra’s Commentary
…with the Pirushim of the Rambam’s Pirish Lemishna, Rash mi-Shantz, and Rosh. To ensure accuracy of these texts, all known manuscripts of these commentaries were used, in a critical edition,…
The Root of the Word מבול: A Flood of Possibilities
…e.g., J. Talmud Rosh ha-Shanah 1:2, Daat Mikra to I Kings 6:38, and Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden-New York-Köln: Brill,…
Visiting Zoos in Halacha
…numerous Rishonim [45] and even brought down l’halachah by the Magen Avraham. [46] Reb Moshe Hakohen, a nephew of the Rosh, in his work Sefer Hamaskil, writes that every year…
PIYYUT ON THE SURVIVAL OF THE JEWS OF BRECLAV (LUNDENBURG) ON JANUARY 23, 1698
…rites. [9] Akeidah piyyutim are generally not recited at all on fast days, or on the days of selihot up until Erev Rosh Hashanah. [10] Chatanu piyyutim are recited in…