Marc Shapiro: R. Kook on Sacrifices & Other Assorted Comments
…just puts it out there. Here is the sentence: והגביל “לרצונכם תזבחהו” (ויקרא יט, ה) שיהיה אפשר וראוי לומר “רוצה אני”. (רש”י על ויקרא א, ג). The Talmud, Rosh ha-Shanah…
Slobodka
…My father, Rabbi Rafael Tikochinski, z”l, was himself an extraordinary masmid, who later became a teacher and a rosh yeshiva to hundreds of students. I grew up in this world,…
Some Observations Regarding the Mah Nishtannah
…if one opens up a standard Masechet Pesachim of the Babylonian Talmud and looks at the text of the Mishnah recorded in the Rif and the Rosh, one sees that…
The Porto family: Eminent Sages, Scholars, and Prolific Seventeenth Century Authors
…completion date of Rosh Hodesh Sivan [5]388 (Friday, June 2, 1628). The text is enclosed by a pillared architectural frame and states that it is an appetizer based on the…
R. Isaac Arama, R. Kook, Mordecai Kaplan, and more
…was not reprinted again until 1990. In 2005 Mossad ha-Rav Kook also published an edition of this commentary. [4] Regarding both of these matters, see Menachem Kellner, trans. Principles of Faith (Rosh…
Eliezer Brodt: A Behind The Scenes Look at Two New Editions: Part One
…that no one seemed to even know about this edition. Miraculously, Rabbi Zweibel’s own Rosh Yeshivah had found a copy of this print from Krakow, and gave it to his…
Anim Zemorot: A Modern Purim Parody
…2. vol., (https://www.getit.co.il/BN_Direct/43804/).Elli Schorr has added his own contributions over the years to this venerable genre. In honor of his daughter’s Bat Mitzva (this past Rosh Chodesh Adar), he published…
David Sassoon, Bibliophile Par Excellence
…helped raise and get installed as a Turkish leader betrayed his wealthy Jewish benefactor. On Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul (August, 1817), after having fasted all day, soldiers suddenly entered his…
Response to Criticism Part 4; Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and the Hazon Ish
Response to Criticism Part 4; Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and the Hazon Ish Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here. 1. In Limits,p. 14 n. 55, I write I should call attention…
Important New Book from the Ba’alei haTosafot
…collections of Tosafot on Tractate Shabbat. As proven in the scholarly introduction to this volume, Rishonim, such as Ramban, Rashba, Ritva and Tosafot Harosh, used these very Tosafot or a…
Another “Translation” by Artscroll, the Rogochover and the Radichkover
…served as rosh yeshiva in Montreux. A number of sharp comments of the Radichkover became well known in the Jerusalem yeshiva world and are mentioned in the two sites I…
The Letter of the Maharal on the Creation of the Golem
…Maharal was appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Prague in 1573. His appointment as Rabbi of Prague came many years later. p. 87, l. 8: The Maharal is depicted throughout the…
Breaching the Walls of History with Postscript
…is a plausible answer. It turns out that among Peretz’s Hasidic tales is the story “Between Two Mountains,” in which a fiercely strict and intellectual rosh yeshiva called “the Brisker…
Eliezer Brodt: Review of Halikhot Shlomo, by R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
…they published a second volume discussing the Yom Tovim starting with Rosh Hashana until and including Purim. (Last year they released a limited edition of the Pesach section.) And this…
What is Bothering the Aruch Hashulchan? Women Wearing Tefillin
…in the Shulchan Aruch rules against the Peskita and like the Bavli, as such is the resolution favored by Rambam, Rif and Rosh. Rabbi Karo states simply: נשים ועבדים פטורים…