Ha-Osek be-Mitzvah Patur min ha-Mitzvah: The Case of Prayer and Torah Study
…point of view, see Hatam Sofer to Nedarim 81a; R. Hayyim Volozin’s Nefesh ha-Hayyim, Shaar Dalet, sect. 3; Ruah Hayyim to Avot 6:1, and the introduction to Eglei Tal. A…
More on The Rebbe
…and Menachem Friedman’s Presentation of the Rebbe’s Life”) by frequent contributor to the Seforim blog, Chaim Rapoport, available here, which elicited a response by Samuel Heilman & Menachem Friedman, followed…
Marc Shapiro: R. Kook on Sacrifices & Other Assorted Comments
…older brother, the Orchos Chayim, who had reinstituted the wearing of techeiles. Reb Yerucham believed that the original formula of his uncle was lost during the war. This is the…
Hasidism in America
…government as a “disadvantaged minority, which allowed them access to various government benefits.” [2] R. Hayyim Halberstam, Divrei Hayyim,vol. 2, Hoshen Mishpat. no. 32, writes against the practice of family succession when it…
Answers to Quiz Questions and Other Comments, part 2
…I am sure people would assume that only a modern feminist type could have penned these words. Yet we see that this is not the case. R. Hayyim David Halevi…
An Illustrated Life of an Illustrious Renaissance Jew Rabbi Doctor Shimshon Morpurgo (1681-1740)
…whose dissertation is on Shabtai Hayyim Marini, both the picture and rebbe of Ramchal are Shabtai Hayyim Marini (1662-1748). In addition, according to Roumani, “Shabbetay Aharon Hayyim Marini is not…
