Mishloah Manot: An Insight of the Rav zt”l
…Rosh Hashanah and other events and thus not published in the volume mentioned above. In two of these letters the Rav argued that the mitzvah of משלח מנות also fell into…
Renewal of the Hakhel Ceremony in Jerusalem and New York
…Shalom Katz from Washington, D.C., and Cantor Pinchas Jassinowsky from New York. Mrs. Jassinowsky accompanied them on the piano. R. Zvi Yehuda Meltzer, Av Bet Din of Rehovot and Rosh…
The Date of the Exodus: A Guide to the Orthodox Perplexed
The Date of the Exodus: A Guide to the Orthodox Perplexed [1] by Mitchell First A pdf of this post can be downloaded here, or viewed here. The Exodus is…
ArtScroll and More
…the author refers to R. Abraham Broda as his teacher.[18] R. Broda had served as rosh yeshiva in Prague, and later rav of Metz and Frankfurt. While Maciejko also accepts…
Using a Colophon to Find a Shidduch: on Ella the Zetser.
…31st chapter of Yirmayahu. The first 19 pesukim of this Perek comprise the Haftorah of the second day of Rosh Hashana. The Navi begins, “Koh Amar Hashem, Matzah Chain BaMidbar”….
Daf Yomi: Seforim on Chagigah
…had with him of this kind this year (earlier we discussed Yerushalmi Shekalim [here], Yoma [here], Rosh Hashanah [here] Taanis [here] Megillah [here] and Moed Koton part one [here], part…
The Physician-Ḥaver in Early Modern Italy: A Reunion of Long Forgotten “Friends”
…18th Century,” (Hebrew) in Y. Tirosh, ed., Shai li-Yeshayahu (Center for Culture of Poel ha-Mizrachi: Tel Aviv, 5716), 347-371, esp. 350. [43] M and M, 31. [44] M and M,…
The Origin of Ta‘anit Esther
…Rosh Ha-Shanah 20a. She’ilta #79 stated explicitly that the 14th of Adar no longer fell on shabbat in its time. [14] The severe difficulties with interpreting yom ha-kenisah as the…
An Honest Account of a Contemporary Jewish Publishing Odyssey
…mentioning the aforementioned saying of Reb Chaim during a shiur at Yeshivat Shaalvim, the Rosh Yeshiva approached him and (jokingly?) said that his entire shiur was worth hearing just because…
Concerning Athei Merahiq, Nasog Ahor, and the Ravia Mugrash, and More
…accented syllable with a shin sound without having to add a phantom patah, e.g., ראש, rosh. The truth is that in these unusual words, which are ideally accented on their…
Upcoming Auction
…online, although who is to know when someone will discover the images and remove it. R. Yom Tov Lipmann Heller’s classic work on the Rosh – today known as Ma’adnei…
[1]: א״ל הקב״ה … יודע אני כוונתו של אהרן היאך היתה לטובה On a Short Wedding Wish to the Lichtensteins from the Pen of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg
…“totally devoted” family man.[39] As Rabbi Menachem Genack, who began his undergraduate studies at Yeshiva College when Rav Lichtenstein was already a rosh kolel in RIETS, remarked, “Rav Aharon’s gadlus…
The Medical Training and Yet Another (Previously Unknown) Legacy of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, zt”l
…Rosh Hashana. He recalls how he left the synagogue after the shacharit (morning) service and returned in time to hear the blowing of the shofar. His other trials and tribulations…
Book Announcements: Five recent works
…his recent works he thanks Rabbi Shaul Alter, Rosh Yeshiva of Ger who has started reading and commenting about his material. This volume was also read by R’ Alter. Reviews…
“Whence Worry?” – On the Murky Trail Of An Aphorism
…This past Rosh Ha’Shanah, my friend A.F. showed me a collection of various homilies of the Rav related to the days of Awe, “prepared, translated and edited by B. David…