Response to Criticism, Part 3
…[!] התורה בתחלת מנותו היסודות With regard to the Thirteen Principles themselves, in R. Jacob Yitzhaki’s popular Sephardic Mahzor Oholei Yaakov: Rosh ha-Shanah, p. 59b, he states: .ובאמת גם הרמב”ם…
The Pew Report and the Orthodox Community (and Other Assorted Comments), part 1
…not the first woman who did something bad.”R. Asher Ben Jehiel, She’elot u-Teshuvot ha-Rosh 18:13, deals with a case of a woman who was intimate with a non-Jew and became…
The Vilna Gaon, part 2 (Review of Eliyahu Stern, The Genius)
…Yehoshua Ehrenberg, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Haderah yeshiva, one of R. Ehrenberg’s great sins is that he declared that “the” gadol ha-dor is not something that can be proclaimed in papal…
The Identity and Meaning of Chashmonai
…recorded between the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai regarding the number of blessings in the Amidot for Yom Tov and Rosh ha-Shanah when these fall on the…
Israel ben Shabtai [Hapstein]. ‘Avodat Yisrael – Book review by Bezalel Naor
…Rabbah, Beshalah [parashah 23] playing on the words “tashuri me-rosh Amanah” [Song of Songs 4:8].) It is a tribute to the originality of the Kozhnitser Maggid that while most Biblical…
Torah mi-Sinai and More
…figure. He is Rosh Yeshiva of the Hesder Yeshiva in Petah Tikva and a major personality in religious Zionism. (In the next installment of this series I will present further…
