Should we celebrate birthdays or not? Is it better to ignore them?
…from the age of 70 – according to the testimony of his son Rabbi Avraham Pallagi (Tsavaa Mechaim §40 and see also Guinzei Chaim, yud §16). And this is also…
Some Assorted Comments and a Selection from my Memoir, part 2
…Tendler came to campus and expressed his feelings about homosexuality. There was the same outrage when the new campus rabbi said similar things. (Shmuley Boteach or R. Chaim Rapoport would…
Is there a rotten apple in the Tu-BeShevat Fruit Basket?
…source. See Brodt Halachic Commentaries to the Shulchan Aruch on Orach Chayim from Ashkenaz and Poland in the Seventeenth Century (PHD Bar Ilan 2015), pp. 68-69. The Mekor Chaim in…
Names of Seforim I
…Hayyim, Darki Hayyim, U’Baharta B’Hayyim, Zechirah L’Hayyim, Huke’ Hayyim, Hayyim b’Yad, Hayyim V’Shalom etc. (you get the picture). Asided from these we have other books which make reference to something…
Concerning Athei Merahiq, Nasog Ahor, and the Ravia Mugrash, and More
…receive a gershayim, marked with a geresh, as there can not be a word marked with gershayim immediately following a word marked with a qadma. With this in mind, we…
Twenty-Five Years at the Valmadonna Trust Library
…mystified us for years by locating another copy. For many years I tried to find the first 10 pages of a Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, di Gara, Venice 1574 for…
