Stolen Title Pages: The Case of An Unknown Contemporary Plagiarist
“Stolen Title Pages”: The Case of An Unknown Contemporary Plagiarist* The title of this post – “Stolen Title Pages” – is not mine, instead, I have borrowed it from Chaim…
Augsburg and its Printers
Augsburg and its Printers: Printer of the Tur in Ashkenaz: Fragments Censored at the Beinecke’s Augsburg Mahzor By Chaim Meiselman Chaim Meiselman catalogs rare books for the Joseph Meyerhoff Collection,…
Lag Ba-Omer and Upsherins in Recent Jewish literature: Revisionist History and Borrowing and Plagiarism
…R. Hayyim Vital, whose source was the Arizal. In truth, it is a mistake to give R. Vital credit for this. The source of this mistake was based on a…
“Is taking my husband not enough?” (Gen 30:15)
…Nahmanides and the Or ha-Hayyim – to posit that Leah was complaining that Rachel was supplanting her in their relationship with Jacob. Nahmanides explains that Leah alleged that Rachel was…
The Golem of Prague in Recent Rabbinic Literature
…3, 2010. 15. R. Hayyim Levi, “המהר”ל זי”ע” Ha-Ma’or 63:1 (2009), p. 84. 16. R. Hayyim Yosef David Azulai (d. 1806), שם הגדולים השלם , Jerusalem, 1979, vol. 1, p….
Marc B. Shapiro: Thoughts on Confrontation & Sundry Matters Part I
…mind. There are great Torah scholars who unfortunately believe the messianic foolishness, and they should be treated with respect. After all, R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai, the Hida, quoted from…
“Seeing the Infinite in Torah” A Memorial to the Gaon Rabbi Shelomo Fisher (Author of Beit Yishai)
…below.) Aharon became a disciple of the venerated Sephardic sage, Hakham Shelomo Eliezer Alfandari (MaHaRaShA, later known as the “Sabba Kadisha”) (d. 1930). Ideologically, Aharon Fisher followed Rabbi Yosef Hayyim…
The Head Movements of Shema’
…Berakhot (Haifa, 1928), Perushim, p. 13. Cf. Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome, Arukh, s.v. bar pahatei. [6] Sefer ha-Mikhtam ibid.; R. Asher of Lunel, Orhot Hayyim, chap. 18. [7]…
Tisha B’av and History of the Temples
…Hafetz Hayyim. The Hafetz Hayyim “confirmed the man’s find by looking in various books.” This story is unfortunately, preposterous. Why would the man travel to America from Israel when he…
[1]: א״ל הקב״ה … יודע אני כוונתו של אהרן היאך היתה לטובה On a Short Wedding Wish to the Lichtensteins from the Pen of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg
…hiddushim u-bei’urim be-dinei orah hayyim ve-yoreh de‘ah, vol. 2 (Jerusalem: Mossad Harav Kook, 2003), 355-357 (sec. 144), at pp. 356-357; his letters to Dr. Gabriel Hayyim Cohn, dated 27 Tevet…
Marc Shapiro: What Do Adon Olam and ס”ט Mean?
…he notes is that one should not write עיין ברמב”ם. Instead, one should write עיין להרמב”ם [17] See his introduction to R. Hayyim Amsellem, Minhat Hayyim, (Sharsheret, 1986), vol. 2….
Torah mi-Sinai and More
…a responsum no. 378 from R. Joseph Hayyim’s Torah li-Shemah. As you can see, the sexual abuse of a child under nine years old was not regarded by him as an…
The 1526 Prague Haggadah and its Illustrations
…wrote a letter to his son, Rabbi Chaim Berlin, urging him to use it for maror instead of sharper vegetables, especially after fasting and drinking wine.[23] There are also numerous…
Legacy Judaica Spring 2021 Auction
…of R’ Chaim Sofer known as ‘the Hungarian R’ Chaim,’ on the work Sharei Torah. See also Item #61 which has glosses from R’ Hirsch Berlin. Item #79, is the…
Legacy Judaica: Astrological Title Pages, R. Hutner, and Other Items of Note
…Division, European Quartermaster General Depot, United States Army. Interesting personal copies one is R. Chaim Ozer’s Achiezer with his inscription (lot 176), R. Chaim Keanievsky’s personal siddur (lot 181), and…