Prof. Marc B. Shapiro response to Rabbi Chaim Rapoport
In response to Rabbi Chaim Rapoport’s recent response to Prof. Marc B. Shapiro’s response to Rabbi Zev Leff (see original review), Prof. Marc B. Shapiro has shared with the Seforim…
Response and Rejoinder to Chaim Rapoport’s The Afterlife of Scholarship
In response to the recent review by Chaim Rapoport, “The Afterlife of Scholarship: A Critical Exploration of Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman’s Presentation of the Rebbe’s Life,” the Seforim blog…
Engaged Couples, צעירים, and More
…of idolator the צעירים are. As mentioned, the halakhah in the Shulhan Arukh is taken from the Orhot Hayyim. It is first quoted in the Beit Yosef, Orah Hayyim 649,…
Gelatin, Supposed Retractions, and Abraham Goldstein, Part 1
…vol. 3, Orah Hayim, no. 12:5:4, vol. 5, Orah Hayyim, no. 40. For a rejection of this claim, see R. Ovadiah Yosef, Yabia Omer, vol. 9, Orah Hayyim, no. 108:189….
Towards a Bibliography of Coronavirus-related Articles & Seforim written in the past month (updated): Black Weddings and others Segulot
…beautiful work Sefer HaChaim (first printed in 1593) which, as he states in his introduction, he wrote during a plague in 1578. Less known (and not mentioned by Ya’ari) is…
Assorted Comments on R. Jacob Emden, Ashkenazic Views of Sephardic Gedolim, and More
…respect the Or ha-Hayyim. He also denies that there was ever a dispute between the Sephardic community and the Or ha-Hayyim. Why then do the Sephardim not go to the…
Hayyim ben Benjamin Ze’ev Bochner: Kabbalist, Talmudist, and Grammarian
…a lesser extent. We begin with Orhot Hayyim published in 1654. I Orhot Hayyim – Bochner based his first composition of consequence, Orhot Hayyim, on the Minhagim of R. Isaac…
The Religious-Zionist Manifesto of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Don Yahya
…of his beloved mentor in the Volozhin Yeshivah. In 2018 (coincidentally a century since Rabbi Hayyim’s passing) there appeared in print a Tagbuch or diary, in which Rabbi Hayyim jotted…
Rav Gorelick, the Rav, and Revision by Omission
…he used to pepper his shiur with a lot of hashkafa, and a lot of mussar, emunah, he would say over a lot from the Nefesh Hachaim…The year that I…
An Attack and Defense of the ArtScroll Talmud and Addendum to the Dec. 2007 Book List
…all. The final article in this section is by R. Chaim Rapoport, a frequent contributor at the Seforim blog, and is the most comprehensive of the bunch. R. Rapoport demonstrates…
In Search of Memory:Towards an Understanding of Baladhur
…Ha-Hayyim who says the chulsis is coffee! The Kanfei Yonah writes that although we know that coffee is not so sharp, being that the Otzar Ha-Hayyim was a big hakham…
Towards a Bibliography of seforim related to Shavuos and Megilas Rus (both new and old) – updated
…Shorshei Minhag Ashkenaz, 4:344-369. See also Eliezer Brodt, Halachic Commentaries to the Shulchan Aruch on Orach Chayim from Ashkenaz and Poland in the Seventeenth Century, PhD, Bar Ian University) July…
Rav Shmuel Ashkenazi: a Hidden Genius
…such works. A sample listing of some of those works that benefited from him before going to print include recent editions of: Sefer Zechirah, Kav Hayasher, Sefer Hachayim and many…
New Writings from R. Kook and Assorted Comments, part 5
…R. Baruch Ber sat on R. Hayyim’s lap. Just like he sat on R. Hayyim’s lap when he was a young student, R. Hayyim wanted R. Baruch Ber to sit…
Quiz Answers; Response to Criticism; Rav Schwab Writes to the Rogochover
…to one example where R. Hayyim suggests that the text of the Mishneh Torah is in error. See Hiddushei R. Hayyim Halevi, Edut 21:9. R. Hayyim supports his suggestion by…