…for the Chofetz Hayyim. The email explains that after hearing someone mentioning the Times covered the Chofetz Hayyim’s death the person couldn’t believe it and decided to investigate the matter….
…which does have its own mesechta. To illustrate this point, the Chofetz Chaim’s son writes that his father spent months working on just two simanim of Hilchos Tefillin for his…
…Chaim Rapoport in Birkat ha-Chamah Al Pei Minhag Chabad (p. 80-81) cites the Alei Tamar who argues that this is an incorrect reading of Yosef Ometz and they did not…
…DeTzniyuta (which is fully translated and commented on in Nefesh HaTzimtzum, Vol. 2, pp. 469-517). R. Chaim’s son, R. Yitzchak, in his introduction to his father’s work, Nefesh HaChaim, describes…
…284 c. 37r. I thank Filippo Valle for taking a photograph of the archival record. [42] JTS Library, Ms. 7216, 177v. [43] D. Carpi, “II rabbino Chayim Polacco, alias Vital…
…remain on during marital relations. See R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai, Birkei Yosef, Orah Hayyim 8:7. See also Magen Avraham, Orah Hayyim 240:22, and R. Avner Afgin, Divrei Shalom, vol….
