A Few Comments Regarding The First Woodcut Border Accompanying The Prague 1526 Haggadah
…Rokeah published in Fano in 1505.[6] But that title page is really one of the more basic forms of the title page, known as a “label title page” providing only…
Who was Reb Shlomo?
…rolled into one, with a touch of Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain.[1] Indeed, Shlomo just didn’t seem to fit into any restrictive defining label. Menachem Daum, in a video report…
Romm Press, Haggadah Art, Controversial Books, and other Bibliographical Historica
…Tikva, St. Louis, 1903. Rosenfeld defends the use of machine manufactured matzot for Passover. There is a significant literature regarding the use of these matzot, see Hayim Gartner, “Machine Matzah,…
Recent Notes On Hebrew Pronunciation
…preparing them for publication, my prolific colleague Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein sent a copy of Professor Geoffrey Khan’s The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew to me. After reading it…
Benefits of the Internet: Besamim Rosh and its History
…sure searches on the various search engines will show even more): Malbim in Artzos Hachaim, 9:41 (in Hameir Learetz); Shut Zecher Yosef,1:32b; Keter Kehunah p. 30; Matzav Hayashar 1:2a; Pischei…
Answers to Quiz Questions and Other Comments, part 1
…also appears in this book, and R. Joseph Hayyim’s explanation is found on p. 116 (no. 202). According to R. Joseph Hayyim, if the singing of an individual woman is…
Eliezer Brodt: A Censored Work by a Student of R. Hayyim of Volozhin: The Case of Menuchah u-Kedushah
…hakodesh so listen to what he says (pg 158). When he talks about the sefer Nefesh Ha-Hayyim from his teacher R. Hayyim of Volozhin, he writes “listen to his holy…
A year in Berlin: The Beginning of Hebrew Printing in Berlin in c. 1699
…ha-Hayyim – Although included in Gefen Yehidit Luah ha-Hayyim is an independent work. In contrast to the other additional parts of the former title, Luah ha-Hayyim has its own title-page….
R. Nathan Nata ben Moses Hannover: The Life and Works of an Illustrious and Tragic Figure
…Satanow. They are followed by Hannover’s introduction, which concludes with a description of the seven sha’arim comprising Sha’arei Ziyyon; Tikkun Hazot based on R. Hayyim Vital’s Etz ha-Hayyim; Tikkun ha-Nefesh, to be said after Tikkun Hazot with Yedid Nefesh; Tikkun ha-Tefillah according…
Cherubim: Winged Celestial Beings on the Title-Pages of Early Hebrew Books
…to his adversaries, and will make expiation כפר (300=1540) for the land of his people” (Deuteronomy 32:43). The names of the printers, Hayyim Shahor, Isaac ben Hayyim, and Joseph ben…
A Gift for Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulay: On R. Yaakov Shimshon Senigallia, author of the Machshirei Pischa haggada, and his relationship with Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulay,‘the Chida’.
A Gift for Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulay: On R. Yaakov Shimshon Senigallia, author of the Machshirei Pischa haggada, and his relationship with Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulay,‘the Chida’. Moshe…
Review of My Father’s Journey by Sara Reguer
…dwelling owned by the Kehilla, and R. Simcha Zelig was exceptionally close with his own rebbe, R. Chaim of Brisk, as well as R. Chaim’s sons, R. Moshe and R….
The Animals
…is a general injunction against mistreating animals. It is from this final prohibition – tzar ba’alei hayyim – that we continue with the remainder of our discussion. Although we are…
Marc B. Shapiro – Responses to Comments and Elaborations on Previous Posts
…R. Zevin reports, in his article on R. Hayyim Soloveitchik in his Ishim ve-Shitot, that it was such an outlook that explained why R. Hayyim did not want to decide…
On Libraries, Bibliophiles & Images: Taj Auction 13
…midrash, even if he provides a large sum of money.” From Ets Haim Bibliotheek Website Among the Ets Hayim Library treasures is an Amsterdam print, the first Haggadah with copperplate…