Book Announcement: Volume Five of Amudim beToldot haSefer haIvri
…Rosh Yeshiva of Ger who has started reading and commenting about his material. Some of his articles were collected into a volume called Pischei Tefilah u-Mo’ad, which was reviewed a…
The First Artichoke Controversy of 2012
…the direction of the copying makes no difference. Just as the Rosh and Tur can’t really be counted as two legal authorities, these two sources are reflections of one another….
Approbations and Restrictions: Printing the Talmud in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam and Two Frankfurts
…defray the cost of publication.[24] Printing began with tractate Berakhot in 1714; the following tractates are recorded by Rabbinovicz as having been printed: 1715 – Shabbat and Seder Zera’im: 1716 – Eruvin, Pesahim, Hagigah, Mo’ed Katan, Yoma, Shekalim, Megillah, and Ketubbot: 1717 – Bezah, Rosh…
Augsburg and its Printers
…the heading האדיר, and opens another acrostic lines into the Piyyut מי אדיר אפסיך – perhaps this is because of the re-use of the text block for the repeating paragraphs of Rosh Hashanah…
The Humble Artichoke
…the Rylands and the Brother, composed in the mid/late-14th century depict marror as an artichoke. [2] [1] Regarding the autonomy of the local rabbinate see Teshuvot haRosh, Klal 21, 8-4, 9-2,…
Eliezer Brodt – The Origins of Hamentashen in Jewish Literature
…– not to mention different customs in regard to how and when to eat them. Rosh Hashanah in renowned for the different fruits and vegetables eaten as physical embodiments symbolizing…
Legacy Judaica Spring 2021 Auction
…Chaim Volozhin to do so. About Item #18 Messechtas Purim see our discussion earlier on the blog here. Item #25 is Peirush Megilas Achashverosh, Venice 1565. The description states: R….
To Censor or Not to Censor, that is the Question
…Gedolot (BeHaG). This copy contains hundreds of unpublished glosses, citations, and cross-references. This copy establishes that the Netziv was not the only Rosh Yeshivah of Volozhin who was involved in…
Kadesheinu beMitsvotekha – The Function of the Mitsva
…for renewal and rededication. But the Shofar of Elul and Rosh HaShana and the fasting of Yom Kippur are the clarion call to re-evaluate the purpose and message of our…
Mishloach Manot of Rabbis and Scholars
…authority of Ashkenazi Jewry served as rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Cracow. In 1556 he was forced to leave Cracow because a plague ravaged the city. He moved temporarily to…
Wrestling with the Ketsot – Review of ‘New Heavens: The Ketsot ha-Hoshen and the Rise of Lamdanut’, by Noam Samet
…New Heavens: The Ketsot ha-Hoshen and the Rise of Lamdanut.[3] Samet is a rare combination of research scholar and rosh yeshiva, a pairing that serves him exceptionally well in the…
The Unusual Word Tzafufim in Pirkei Avos
…might theoretically be interpreted to mean דחוקים. However, all these examples are rather דוחק. For example, he cites Rosh Hashana 16b, where Jews in the middle category of merits and…
Uncensored Books (Dr. Marc B. Shapiro)
…was published by Yeshivat Or Etzion in Israel, whose Rosh Yeshivah is R. Hayyim Druckman. It is obvious that the editors have no knowledge of American Jewish history, otherwise, the…
Hebrew printing in Altdorf: A brief Christian-Hebraist Phenomenon
…Ba’alei Tosafot, was a student of R. Judah ben Isaac (Sir Leon), whom he succeeded as rosh yeshivah in Paris. Among Jehiel’s students was his son-in-law, R. Isaac of Corbeil…
A Third Way: Iyyun Tunisai as a Traditional Critical Method of Talmud Study
…in The Seforim Blog in the name of an anonymous rosh yeshiva, but they are in fact the comments of R. Mazuz. R. Weinberg accuses R. Chaim of inventing elaborate…