Torah Under Wraps
…legitimate pursuit open to him is Jewish Studies. In that way he can edit the novellae of the Rosh to tractate Nazir without raising too many eyebrows. For that reason…
Further On A Forged Letter of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Further On A Forged Letter of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik By Mosheh Lichtenstein Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein is a co-Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion. He is a grandson of Rabbi…
Engaged Couples, צעירים, and More
…col. 259; Hiddushei ha-Ritva: Rosh ha-Shanah 28a, Mossad ha-Rav Kook ed., col. 264. [15] Birkei Yosef, Orah Hayyim 649:3. R. Moses Sofer also refers to Zech. 13:7. See the Makhon…
Kalir, False Accusations, and More
…five.) R. Shapira also wasn’t provided with a short biography, presumably because then his position as Rosh Yeshiva of Merkaz ha-Rav and Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel would…
Daily Birkat Cohanim in the Diaspora
…the Rif and the Rosh, and that there is no issue of a berachah le-vatalah, etc. We shall not repeat his detailed argumentation, which is beyond the scope of this…
Marc B. Shapiro – Rabbis and Communism
…Torah Personalities (Jerusalem: Hamesorah Publishers, 2002), 400, quotes a source that “he was considered the third-greatest rosh yeshiva of his time – after R. Hayyim Soloveitchik and R. Itzel Ponivezher.”…
