The Vilna Gaon’s Talmud
…for each volume it may have been a different edition. Sources on the blessing: T.B. Menachot 43,b; Dikdukei Sofrim ad. loc.; Rosh, Berakot chapt. 9; Ma’dani Melekh id. at note…
Eliezer Kallir – Updated
…(although most of his piyyutim that were included in the Rosh haShana and Yom Kippur prayers are no longer said by most). While his literary output is well-known, “[b]iographical facts…
Shnayer Leiman: Notes on Rabbinic Epitaphs I
…from his comments. It is sad that this seminal figure, Rector and Rosh Yeshiva, Bible scholar and Posek, Literary Critic of the Mishnah and Restorer of Lost Tannaitic Midrashim, Defender…
A Note on the הסכמות of the חפץ חיים
…R. Avraham Yoffen (1887-1970), Rosh Yeshiva of Nevarodok in Nevarodok, and then of Nevarodok in Bialystok. The letter is dated 13 Tishre 5680 [October 7, 1919] and was written in…
Akiva Leiman: Gravely Mistaken
…for the exact wording on his tombstone. He actually died on Friday Rosh Chodesh Kislev 5319, which was in 1558. See A. A. Akavia לוח לששת אלפי שנה p. 485….
On some new seforim, Copernicus, saying Ledovid , Moses Mendelssohn and other random comments
…ואין מדבריהם ז”ל הוכחה של כלום, וכאילו לא אמרו כלום בנידון הזה Now besides for the haughtiness of this statement the only Rosh HaYeshiva I quoted in my article that…
