…to Non-Jewish Society,” in Tikkun Olam: Social Responsibility in Jewish Thought and Law, eds. David Shatz, Chaim I. Waxman, and Nathan J. Diament, Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1997, p. 61….
…reasons” to publish it anonymously. Regarding the essay and its attribution to R. Zevin, R. Chaim Rapoport has commented to me that since the essay has two references to Shulhan Arukh ha-Rav,…
…Volozhin, where he studied with the famed Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik. . . . Rabbi Kiseleff was ordained by Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski and then served as the rabbi of Borisoff…
…a position of the recently deceased R. Joseph Hayyim, the Ben Ish Hai. R. Solomon appears to even cast doubt on R. Joseph Hayyim’s integrity when he writes: וקי”ל ת”ח שאמר…
…in the beginning of R. Hayyim Vital’s Etz Hayyim, is attributed to Najara in several manuscripts. R. Yom Tov ben Moses Zahalon: Commentary on the book of Esther by R….
…population. La-Yesharim Tehillah – Among the first titles published by the press is La-Yesharim Tehillah, a drama by the renowned kabbalist R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto’s (Ramhal, 1707–1746). Ramhal is best…
…and Sefer Yetzirah (including Naor’s suggestion that a halakhah in the Mishneh Torah was influenced by Sefer Yetzirah[3]), and analysis of R. Hayyim Soloveitchik’s commentary on various halakhot of the…
…‘the desirable of the young men” (cf. Ezekiel 23:6, 12, 23) such as R. Samuel Hayyim Bassan of Verona, a student of R. Samuel Meldola.” There is a dedication to…
…Sperber, Minhagei Yisrael (Jerusalem: Mossad HaRav Kook, 2007) index “leshem yihud”). Similarly, the Sh”ut Mayyim Hayyim (lot 18) by R. Hayyim Rapoport we have discussed at length here. The work establishes…
…from Sefer Erekh Millin by Rabbi Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (SHIR) 70. People of the East first marry and then learn Torah. People of the Land of Israel learn Torah…
…publication of his books Birkhot ha-Hayyim and Mekhalkel Hayim be-Hesed, which were in large part devoted to showing that the proper – and original — pronunciation in the Amidah is…
A Tale of Two Zionist Siddurim in Exile Seth (Avi) Kadish Zionist Siddurim and Modern Orthodoxy Modern Orthodoxy today, in America and throughout the diaspora, is largely a Zionist…
…Hutner (1906-1980), the longtime dean of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin of Brooklyn, New York had a unique and eclectic approach to Torah, spirituality, and Orthodox society life in the 20th…
ABRAHAM’S CHALDEAN ORIGINS AND THE CHALDEE LANGUAGE by Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein is the author of the newly published Lashon HaKodesh: History, Holiness, & Hebrew [available…
…special shelves were built from floor to ceiling to line all the available walls. Each book was bound in special hand-crafted leather and labeled with gold leaf. Upon completion of…