Further Comments by Marc Shapiro
…manuscripts of his were lost. His grandson was Prof. Moshe Shulvass, and a responsum is addressed to him in Michaelson’s Tirosh ve-Yitzhar, no. 158. Schorr’s son was Dr. Alexander Schorr,…
The 1526 Prague Haggadah and its Illustrations
…the rosh yeshivah and av beis din of Prague in the 1520s. He also authored some notes to the Tur, which were printed by Gershom (Cohen) Katz in Prague in…
Adam Mintz — Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin: A Forgotten American Posek
…but did not speak. Rabbi Henkin was born in White Russia in 1881. He studied, primarily, in the yeshiva in Slutzk and spent ten years as a rabbi and rosh…
כעומד לפני השכינה בשעת ער לערנט: Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein on the Divide Between Traditional and Academic Jewish Studies
…le-illui nishmat Sima Belah bat Aryeh Leib, z”l. Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein enthusiasts might be surprised to learn that there was a time when the rosh yeshivah, zts”l, lectured publicly in…
Hayyim ben Benjamin Ze’ev Bochner: Kabbalist, Talmudist, and Grammarian
…tents of his palace” (Daniel 11:45) . . . The title-page is dated בו יגדל שלום (in which peace will grow, 431 =1661). The colophon is dated, Monday, Rosh Hodesh…
R. Hershel Schachter, Gedolim, Rachel Morpurgo, and More
…R. Schachter rejects the legitimacy of Daas Torah proclamations by roshei yeshiva who do not deal with practical halakhic questions.[5] In his halakhic-centric approach, there is no room for such…
