Book Week 2011
…Professors Chaim Soloveitchik, Shnayer Z. Leiman, A. Grossman. M. Rosman, Eric Zimmer, R. Reiner ,Simcha Emanuel and many others (a table of contents is available upon request). Another nice title…
Satmar From As Seen By An Insider: A Review of the New English Biography of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe
…and he wreaks terrible destruction. It’s a totally new derech, and it’s not Toras Emes.” The Rebbe isn’t exactly the open-minded or “eilu ve’eilu divrei elokim chaim” type. I’m curious…
The Man who Tried to Put it All Together: A Hesped for Rav Kook on His Eightieth Yahrzeit
…Mapai party, Chaim Arlosoroff. Suspicion fell on Jabotinsky’s Revisionists, who had been doing rhetorical and sometimes physical battle with Mapai over its willingness to negotiate Jewish immigration with Hitler, and…
Easing the Donkey’s Burden: Nitkatnu Hadorot or Nitgadlu?
…Maimonides, that morality without acceptance of the yoke of Heaven is simply not considered moral. [20] See for example Rabbi Moses Chaim Luzzato’s introduction to Aggadah, found in the beginning…
“Whence Worry?” – On the Murky Trail Of An Aphorism
…Chaim Kanievsky) refers us to the celebrated nineteenth century moralistic treatise פלא יועץ, by the Bosnian-Bulgarian Rav Eliezer Papo: כתיב (משלי יב:כה) דאגה בלב איש ישחנה. ופרשו רבותינו ז”ל (יומא…
Midrash Lekah Tov, part Deux
…by this same Makhon where they reprinted and reset the type of some important unavailable works on the Shulhan Arukh, including R. Chaim Buchner’s Or Chadash, Nachlat Tzvi, and Olat…
