Should we celebrate birthdays or not? Is it better to ignore them?
…as we will see we can find anything and everything. GOOD MAZAL The Yerushalmi Rosh Hashana (III, 8) relates that Amalek placed soldiers on their birthday at the battle front…
R. Yitchak Al-fasi’s Anti-Qaraite Legislative Activity
…quite natural that we find many instances of anti-Qaraite legislation in his writings. Below are four such cases: 1) R. Al-fasi had the shofar blown on Shabbos Rosh HaShanah in…
Translating the Aruch HaShulchan with AI: Method and Lessons
…words of the Rosh there, and the Tur here, it does not appear so, see there. (See Ketzot HaChoshen there, letter 100, who elaborated on this.) — ## Low Thinking…
The Haftarot in the1806 Lopez Calendar
…York attending services there in 1789, noted that they read the parasha from a Humash rather than from a sefer torah.[6] Upon his return there for Rosh Hashana in 1790,…
Review of R. Yedidyah Tiyah Weil’s Levushi Badim: With An Eye Towards Yom Kippur
…R. Yonason Eybeschutz, and served as the Rav of Karlsruh, and as the Rosh Yeshiva there. He wrote much; however, aside for his Haggadah, nothing else was printed until 1977….
Self-Censorship in the Arukh ha-Shulhan, ArtScroll’s Latest Betrayal, and Other Assorted Comments
…where R. Weinberg stood on this issue, and that for all his love and respect for the haredi roshei yeshiva, intellectually and spiritually he was not part of their world….
