Answers to Quiz Questions and Other Comments, part 1
…would even assume that that there were some roshei yeshiva who saw it. Until the 1980s there was no problem with Modern Orthodox synagogues sponsoring trips to Broadway musicals. My…
The Valmadonna Broadside Collection: a Review Essay
…(id., p. 597). This one, fortunately, was published. (This is from Scholem’s personal copy.) Kabbalistic Tefilos for Rosh Hashanah This broadside from Mantua 1790, reproduced in the book (p.43), is…
How much Greek in “Greek Wisdom”? On the Meaning of Hokhmat Yevanit
…Rashba, seeמנחת קנאות מכתב צג . [30] The Rashba himself apparently did not agree with the Rosh about the scope of the Talmudic prohibition, and felt that his decree was…
A Picture and its One Thousand Words: The Old Jewish Cemetery of Vilna Revisited*
…Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik is currently Rosh Yeshiva of the Brisk Yeshiva in the Givat Moshe (also called: Gush Shemonim) section of Jerusalem. A descendant of R. Hayyim of Volozhin (d….
Evening Prayer Revisited
…the danger to go outside at night as their synagogues were outside of the city). [4] As many do today when praying early Maariv. [5] See also Rosh (Brachot 1:1)…
A Quotation Fabrication: What the Rema did Not Say on Wearing Leather Shoes on Yom Kippur
…whether one may shecht on Rosh Hashana. It is clear from Tanach (Nechemia 8:10) and the Mishna (Hullin 5:3) that meat was commonly eaten on Rosh Hashanah. Nonetheless, Rav Aszod…
