Waiting Six Hours for Dairy- A Rabbanite Response to Qaraism
…new legislation [28]. They therefore knew only the ancient Halacha and stuck with it because they had no reason to change [29]. Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of Machon Shilo delivered a series…
Interview with Professor Lawrence Kaplan
…As Brown pointed out, the Chafetz Chaim speaks about de–kula ba extensively. In my article I quote a text of the Chafetz Chaim – or rather an oral shemuah attributed…
Was Avraham a Lamdan?
…even kept rabbinically mandated laws. [4] Regarding all this see Encyclopedia Talmudit referenced in note 1. See also Maharatz Chayes in Toras Hanevi’im, Chapter 11, pg. 63-72; Nefesh Hachaim, Sha’ar…
The Fish Motif on Early Hebrew Title-Pages and as Pressmarks
…them. Uri Phoebus passed away in c. 1705.[18] He was succeeded in Zolkiew by his son Hayyim David, who had assisted his father at the press. Unfortunately, Hayyim David died…
Manasseh of Ilya and Y. Barzilay
…regard to the Halakhah and its historical development.” (p. 24). Therefore, Barzilay wants to then claim and project back on Manasseh’s early years and label him as a radical even…
R. Hershel Schachter, Gedolim, Rachel Morpurgo, and More
…century. But even in previous centuries matters were not absolute. For example, what about R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto? He was not a posek, yet would anyone today deny that he…
Which Direction is North?, Geographical Mistakes, and our Woke Universities
…is mistaken (היפך המציאות) about where Kush is located, as R. Strashun tells us that Kush is Ethiopia. However, as R. Yaakov Hayyim Sofer has noted, Rashi routinely explains Kush…
KEDUSHAH, KEDOSHAH, OR B’K’DUSHAH in KEDUSHAH D’YESHIVAH?
…Joseph Karo (Bet Yosef on Tur, Orah Hayyim 59, s.v. katuv) cites the Orhot Hayyim who accepts the first view and adds “I heard that the leading authorities of the…
Reading Over the Brisker Rav’s Shoulder
…writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Chaim Grade, and Abraham Sutzkever (who was among the heroes who saved and recovered some of the Strashun’s holdings); artist Marc Chagall; the “Chofetz Chaim” Rabbi…
Comments on This and That, part 2
…596:1; Sefer Zikaron Divrei Shelom Hakhamim (Jerusalem, 2003), p. 264. [14] Otzar ha-Hayyim, Tevet 5695, pp. 87-88. [15] Ner Maaravi 2 (1925), pp. 227-228; Divrei Menahem, vol. 4, no. 13….
Cemeteries and Response to Criticism
…my response (and it looks like it will take many posts before I am finished, unless I first tire of this endeavor). [1] Sipurim me-ha-Hayyim: Kitzur Shivhei ha-Ben Ish Hai…
Marc B. Shapiro – Responses to Comments and Elaborations of Previous Posts III
Responses to Comments and Elaborations of Previous Posts III by Marc B. Shapiro This post is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Chaim Flom, late rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Ohr…
The Hanukkah Miracle
…לא ערב לבו לנגוע במנהג ישן שקימו וקבלו עליהם הדורות שלפניו. Not long ago I was listening to some recordings from R. David Bar-Hayim of Machon Shilo. One of them…
The Anatomy of an Auction: A Previously Undissected Body of Literature on the History of the Jews and Postmortem Dissection
…offered for auction by Genazym is an earlier lesser-known composition of the same name by Yitzchak Hayyim Kohen me-haHazzanim (AKA Isaac Vita Cantarini)[3] published in 1685. Buried in Cantarini’s obscure…
Open Orthodoxy and Its Main Critic, part 1
…commentary attempts to explain what occurs at the beginning of parashat Va-Era. For example, “Or HaChaim comments that God’s essence is represented by the name HASHEM.” This makes no sense,…