What is Bothering the Aruch Hashulchan? Women Wearing Tefillin
…in the Shulchan Aruch rules against the Peskita and like the Bavli, as such is the resolution favored by Rambam, Rif and Rosh. Rabbi Karo states simply: נשים ועבדים פטורים…
Book Announcement: Volume Five of Amudim beToldot haSefer haIvri
…Rosh Yeshiva of Ger who has started reading and commenting about his material. Some of his articles were collected into a volume called Pischei Tefilah u-Mo’ad, which was reviewed a…
The First Artichoke Controversy of 2012
…the direction of the copying makes no difference. Just as the Rosh and Tur can’t really be counted as two legal authorities, these two sources are reflections of one another….
Approbations and Restrictions: Printing the Talmud in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam and Two Frankfurts
…defray the cost of publication.[24] Printing began with tractate Berakhot in 1714; the following tractates are recorded by Rabbinovicz as having been printed: 1715 – Shabbat and Seder Zera’im: 1716 – Eruvin, Pesahim, Hagigah, Mo’ed Katan, Yoma, Shekalim, Megillah, and Ketubbot: 1717 – Bezah, Rosh…
Augsburg and its Printers
…the heading האדיר, and opens another acrostic lines into the Piyyut מי אדיר אפסיך – perhaps this is because of the re-use of the text block for the repeating paragraphs of Rosh Hashanah…
The Humble Artichoke
…the Rylands and the Brother, composed in the mid/late-14th century depict marror as an artichoke. [2] [1] Regarding the autonomy of the local rabbinate see Teshuvot haRosh, Klal 21, 8-4, 9-2,…
