Some Recollections of R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, Love Before Marriage, and More
…R. Moses Sofer. Among other noteworthy things found in this Haggadah are an article by R. Chaim Rapoport and the Yiddish version of a few beloved Passover songs. 3. On…
Daily Birkat Cohanim in the Diaspora
…were correct, how come the Cohanim abroad do bless the people on festivals during musaf? [1] The Sefardi Kaf ha-Hayyim, R. Yaakov Hayyim Sofer, on the other hand (Orah Hayyim…
Review of a new edition of the Sefer Chasidim
…vol. 2 p. 102 the end of note 1; see also Chaim Michal, Or haChaim p. 456). Abraham Epstein writes that the Sefer Chasidim doesn’t have a single author but…
For the Sake of Radin! The Sugar Magnate’s Missing Yarmulke and a Zionist Revision
…Among the conditions of the donation was that during the first year after his death ten men were selected and were required to visit the grave R. Hayim Volozhin’s and…
On the Times Commonly Presented for Birkat HaL’vana: Part 1
…do this. The Shulhan Aruch thus rules that one can stick with the most inexact calculation (Orah Hayim 426:3), but the Pri M’gadim (Eshel Avraham 13 to Orah Hayim 426)…
Tobacco and the Hasidim and a Comment on Artscroll
…32, nos. 8 and 9. 25. On Hayim Halberstam as a heavy smoker, see Yosef David Weisbert, Rabenu hakadosh mizantz (Jerusalem, 1976), 197, 211, and Yosef David Weisbert, Otzar hahayim…
