Response to Criticism Part 4; Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and the Hazon Ish
Response to Criticism Part 4; Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and the Hazon Ish Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here. 1. In Limits,p. 14 n. 55, I write I should call attention…
Important New Book from the Ba’alei haTosafot
…collections of Tosafot on Tractate Shabbat. As proven in the scholarly introduction to this volume, Rishonim, such as Ramban, Rashba, Ritva and Tosafot Harosh, used these very Tosafot or a…
Another “Translation” by Artscroll, the Rogochover and the Radichkover
…served as rosh yeshiva in Montreux. A number of sharp comments of the Radichkover became well known in the Jerusalem yeshiva world and are mentioned in the two sites I…
The Letter of the Maharal on the Creation of the Golem
…Maharal was appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Prague in 1573. His appointment as Rabbi of Prague came many years later. p. 87, l. 8: The Maharal is depicted throughout the…
Breaching the Walls of History with Postscript
…is a plausible answer. It turns out that among Peretz’s Hasidic tales is the story “Between Two Mountains,” in which a fiercely strict and intellectual rosh yeshiva called “the Brisker…
Eliezer Brodt: Review of Halikhot Shlomo, by R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
…they published a second volume discussing the Yom Tovim starting with Rosh Hashana until and including Purim. (Last year they released a limited edition of the Pesach section.) And this…
