R. Elazar Fleckeles’s Haggadah Maaseh BR’ Elazar
…beginning of the Haggadah, R’ Fleckeles deals with the famous question as to why there is no Beracha on Sipur Yetzias Mitzrayim, quoting a Shut Besamim Rosh on the topic…
Shaving on Chol HaMo’ad the Never-ending Controversy
…the Noda B’Yehuda was published, another book – which was controversial in its entirety – was published. This book, Besamim Rosh, (previous discussions here) was published in 1793 but attributed…
Finders Keepers? The Itinerant History of Strashun Library of Vilna, Pt I
…the JNUL, Scholem colluded with a Jewish American serviceman to smuggle the works out of Offenbach. Scholem placed the collection into five boxes but did not label their contents and…
Tarnopol: A short-lived early 19th century Hebrew press
…ha-Torah; Tikkun Kriat Shema with the appropriate kavvanot; Tikkun shel Erev Rosh Hodesh; and Tikkun Malkhut on Rosh Ha-Shanah and Yom ha-Kippurim. Omitted are the approbations and Hannover’s introduction that…
Change Has Come To Modena
…of Moshiach, and he refers to Moshiach as Nezer Rosheinu ( bottom line below). I was curious about the words Nezer Rosheinu to describe Moshiach, and suspecting foul play, I…
The sukkah on Shemini Atzeret controversy
…yerushalmi and bavli when rosh chodesh was declared based on the observation of witnesses and a later period when rosh chodesh was determined using a fixed calendar. The geonic interpolation…
Psalms on Rosh haShana
Psalms on Rosh haShanaby: Eliezer Brodt What follows is a discourse, that is part of a forthcoming sefer, regarding the propriety of reciting Psalms on Rosh ha-Shana. This discussion touches…
Dorshei Yichudcha: A Portrait of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson
…served as the longtime rabbi of Congregation Sha’arei Tefillah in Brooklyn and was a popular Rosh Yeshivah at Yeshiva University/BTA in Brooklyn. Upon his death, Rabbi Wilfred Wolfson’s collection of…
Index
…7 · Arukh HaShulhan 10 · Beit Yosef 2 · Berogez Racheim Tizkor 2 · Besamim Rosh 13 · Beys Yaakov Journal 2 · Birds’ Head Haggadah 2 · Bomberg…
Review of Professor Daniel Sperber’s Netivot Pesikah
…Emden’s positions.] Sperber offers an example how censorship from the censors causes a wrong Pesak on topic of halakhot of lo sichanam. He has a small discussion about the Besamim…
Le-Tacen Olam (לתכן עולם): Establishing the Correct Text in Aleinu
…of עולם תקון has no connection to the Aleinu prayer.[3] —– It is reasonable to assume that Aleinu was already included in the Amidah of Rosh ha-Shanah (=RH) by the…
Marc B. Shapiro – Responses to Comments and Elaborations of Previous Posts III
Responses to Comments and Elaborations of Previous Posts III by Marc B. Shapiro This post is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Chaim Flom, late rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Ohr…
How the “Songs of the Day” Were Chosen
…and will not concern us here. But what about the remaining six weekdays? What connection do these Psalms have with the various days of the week? The Gemara in Rosh…
Mysteries of the Magical Fifth Passover Cup (II): The Great Disappearing Act
…Maharil cited the genuine text version of Rosh.[6] R. Hilewitz’s hunch was correct, as we find in an early manuscript of Rosh (Asheri) written in Spain in 1325 during the…
Review of My Father’s Journey by Sara Reguer
…young Rosh Mesivta of Karilov, R. Yechezkel of Trestina. The latter was later to become famous in his capacity as Rosh Yeshiva in the preparatory mesivta in Slabodka and his…