Review: Or Hayyim Commentary
ביקורת ספרים: אור החיים על חומש בראשית – הוצאת מוסד הרב קוק[1]מאת: רב צעיר ביריד הוצאת מוסד הרב קוק בחודש ניסן האחרון ראיתי שיצא לאור חומש עם פירוש אור החיים…
Book Review: Yosie Levine, Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate
…no uncertain terms that the Alter Rebbe’s pesak was derived from Rabbenu Hananel—which is to say Ra’avan—and not from these mystical considerations.)[12] Aderet’s contemporary, Rabbi Hayyim Soloveichik of Brisk, also…
Keter Shem Tov: A Study in the Entitling of Books, Here Limited to One Title Only
…scion of a famous Moroccan Rabbinical dynasty which emigrated to Palestine from Spain, was a great-grandson of R. Hayyim Gaguin the first Hakham Bashi of Eretz Israel in the Ottoman…
A Little-Known Rabbi Doctor and his Exceedingly Rare Medical Diploma Leon Cantarini- AKA Yehuda HaKohen Katz Me-HaHazzanim (University of Padua, 1623)
…accepted latinized form for Shmuel. Leon’s Relationship to Isaac Hayyim Cantarini The historical record of Leon Cantarini is dwarfed by his more famous relative, Isaac Hayyim Cantarini,[8] whose writings contribute…
Summary of Jordan Penkower on reading Zekher or Zeikher Amalek
…the footnote referring to R. Hayyim of Volozhin’s testimony: Here is R. Hayyim’s testimony in his approbation at the beginning of this work: Approximately eighty years later, R. Israel Meir…
Review of Jay R. Berkovitz’s The Pinkas of Metz
…earlier sources for this. This is part of his much larger work on the subject, which was not published. Most recently, they published R’ Chaim Kanievsky’s Tests that he gave…
Eliezer Brodt – A Lively History of Reprinting Rabbeinu Yeruchem
…why was there such a curse?[4] One such work, which the Chida already mentions, is R. Hayyim Algazi’s Netivot Hamishpat.[5] The title page already records with regard to R. Algazi,…
Review of Amudim be-Toldot Sefer ha-I…
…(illegally?) Soncino editions. p. 234 n.79 discussing the alleged apostasy of Yakkov ben Hayyim Ibn Adoniyahu, the editor of the Mikrot Gedolot and other seminal texts. p. 268 n.95 many…
A Letter from R. Nathan Kamenetsky
…in 1986 by R’ Chaim-Dov Altusky, Rabbi Pinchas Scheinberg’s late son-in-law, under the name “Chiddushei Hagram Mislabodka” (together with “Chiddushei Hamasbir”, with the last word created from the acronym of…
תיובתות דחפץ חיים תיובתות – עלומות בשולי ההדפסה הראשונה של המשנה ברורה חלק א
…and subscriber lists went to which community. Along the way Caplan raises questions the Chafetz Chaim never addressed: why isn’t financing print runs listed among forms of Torah support in…
Kol Nidrei, Choirs, and Beethoven: The Eternity of the Jewish Musical Tradition
…Rapoport-Albert (Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2009) 385-403. The images are taken from Cohen-Mushlin. [2] Hirsz Abramowicz, Profiles of a Lost World (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999), 293. [3] Regarding…
Kol Nidrei, Choirs, and Beethoven: The Eternity of the Jewish Musical Tradition
…u-ve-Tarbutam: Shai le-Imanuel Etkes, eds. David Asaf and Ada Rapoport-Albert (Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2009) 385-403. The images are taken from Cohen-Mushlin. [2] Hirsz Abramowicz, Profiles of a Lost World…
The Root of the Word מבול: A Flood of Possibilities
…the root יבל is connected to water in several verses. See Is. 30:25 and 44:4: מים יבלי (streams of water) and Jer. 17:8: יובל. See also Dan 8:2 (אובל). Hayyim…
Baranovich Auction
…of the Hafetz Hayim, Vilna 1873, lot 72 is available. For earliest mention of the Ba’al Shem Tov see lot 81, Maayim Hayyim , discussed at length here. Finally, for…
A Young Man Holding a Torah Scroll and a Young Woman Holding a Book: The Life and Afterlife of Two Illustrations
A Young Man Holding a Torah Scroll and a Young Woman Holding a Book: The Life and Afterlife of Two Illustrations By Rachel Manekin Rachel Manekin is Professor Emerita of…