…Job; Ezra-Neh; Dan; Chronicles] 1. Kaplan et al. BS1158. H4C8 1978 43 vols. XXVIII. Or ha-Hayim [= Hayyim ben Moses Attar, 1696-1743] A. Torah 1. Munk BS1225.X2 I28613 1995 5…
…131) was published in China. Returning to forgeries, the compendium of R. Zechariah Yeshayahu Yolles, Ha-Torah veha-Hayyim, (lot 24), includes his Dover Mesharim that disproves the attribution of a certain work to…
…on this. There are at least three books that are entirely devoted to this issue. See, e.g., Hayyim Kraus’s books, Mekhalkhel Hayyim, Jerusalem, 1981 and Ot Hayim, Beni Brak, 1984. …
…located. The wheel, when it begins to run, emits fire-sparks… See also the words of Rav Chaim Dovid Regensburg, describing the problem of the refrigerator motor, in Mishmeret Chaim, siman…
Chaim Zelig Slonimsky and the Diskin family by Zerachya Licht In December of 2016, Seforim blog published an article by Zerachya Licht about the Maskil Chaim Zelig Slonimsky and the Chanuka controversy he ignited. Presented here…
…Maharal Create a Golem.” I. Introduction In 1923, Chaim Bloch (1881-1973), noted author and polemicist,1published a letter of the Maharal (d. 1609) that was previously unknown to all of…
…דיני קנסות ונמצאו קלי דעת פורצין גדרו של עולם ונמצא העולם שמם See also R. Hayyim Ozer Grodzinski, Iggerot R. Hayyim Ozer, vol. 2 nos. 833, 837.On p. 58, Agasi…
…in her father-in-law’s house. R. Joseph Messas (Mayim Hayyim, vol. 2, Orah Hayyim no. 140) points out that Shabbat 6:6 refers to Arabian Jewish women going out veiled, which means that their…
…Maimonides and His Interpreters, pp. 6, 68 n. 275. [16] See my Iggerot Malkhei Rabbanan, no. 120. Copies of this work are available here. [17] Nefesh ha-Hayyim 2:17, 4:28. [18]…
…this text sees here an indication that the Hafetz Hayyim’s son was also involved in the writing of the Mishnah Berurah (as he claimed), since the Hafetz Hayyim himself would not do…
…thread.] After completing this post R. Chaim Rapoport sent me an article of his on Jewish attitudes on Copernicus which will be published shortly, in the next Or Yisroel (I…
…our purposes. NEJ contains two entries of interest that appear several pages apart in volume 3. The first entry is entitled: Bloch, Chaim Isaac. The second entry is entitled: Bloch,…
…Bayit Ne’eman 18 (26 Sivan 5776), p. 1. [13] Bah, Orah Hayyim 17. [14] Orah Hayyim 17: קטן היודע להתעטף אביו צריך ליקח לו ציצית לחנכו [15] See Tosafot, Bava…
…See also his Chazon Ovadiah (Tu B’Shvat), pp. 453–455. 30. Tehillat Chaim, 2, Bnei Brak 1995, pp. 183–184. 31. Nimikei Aruch Chaim, 225; Rabbi Shabtzvi Liphshitz, Sefer Ha-Eshel, erech Baalei…
ענין הריגת עשו והמסתעף Shlomo (Steven) Flamer is a fourth-year medical student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He previously studied at Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim (Queens, NY), and holds…