…on Tisha Bav. The piyut, however has become famous for a different reason.[7] In the Artscroll commentary on the Kinos, R. Avraham Chaim Feuer writes: An ancient manuscript states that…
…sunset. Among aḥaronim who maintain such a viewpoint are R. Nosson Adler,[8] R. Yaacov Lorberbaum, the Ben Ish Chai, R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, among many others. While the endpoint of Ramban…
…Friedlander 1907–1909 20 Genizat Kherson 1922 21 Der Prager Golem (1917); Kovetz Michtavim Mekori’im MiHaBesht VeTalmidav (1923); Heichal LeDivrei Chazal (1948); Sefer Dovev Siftei Yeshenim (1959-1965) Chaim Bloch 1917-1965 22…
How many children did Michal have? Explanation of a Talmudic passage in light of the writings of Josephus Flavius[1] By Chaim Sunitsky The following Talmudic passage appears in Sanhedrin 19b…
Mavericks, Mystics, & False Messiahs: Episodes from the Margins of Jewish History by Rabbi Pini Dunner (Toby Press, 2018) Reviewed by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein The first chapter of this…
A Source for Rav Kook’s Orot Hateshuva Chapters 1 – 3 By Chaim Katz, Montreal Rav Kook begins the first chapter of his Orot Hateshuva [1] as follows: We find…
Parshat Tetzaveh. Greek letter Chi and Tav in Paleo-Hebrew By Chaim Sunitsky Rashi[1] on Parshat Tetzave writes that the priests were anointed with oil, poured in the shape of the…
Parshat Ki Tisa. The Anointing Oil Revisited. By Chaim Sunitsky In this parsha we have the instructions of how to make anointing oil: וְאַתָּה קַח לְךָ בְּשָׂמִים רֹאשׁ מָר דְּרוֹר…
The Yom Tov Lecture of R. Eliezer Hagadol By Chaim Katz, Montreal Our Rabbis taught in a baraita: R. Eliezer was sitting and lecturing about the laws of the festivals…
Rabbi Zeira – Forgetting the Teachings of Babylon By Chaim Katz We read in the Talmud (Baba Metziah 85a): R. Zeira, when he moved to the land of Israel, observed…
Running on the Inclined Plane of the Altar in the Second Temple by Chaim Katz בראשונה … רצין ועולים בכבש, וכל הקודם את חברו לתוך ארבע אמות זכה We read…
…in 1883. 2. In 1954, the earliest of the 3 extant photographs of R. Yitzchak Lipkin was published by his grandson, R. Hayyim Yitzchak Lipkin (1911-1988).[3] It appeared as follows:…
…hamentashen have with Purim? Hayyim Schauss explains that in actuality the origins of the hamentashen are not Jewish, rather, we originally appropriated them from another culture. He explains that: “the…
…in Jerusalem in 1908. In this edition they have included the haskamot (approbations) from the original book which include, inter alia, R. Yosef Hayyim Sonnenfeld and R. Hayyim Berlin. But,…
…in Shulhan Arukh. Thus, you can click and see what the responsa has to say about Siman Gimmel in Orah Hayyim etc. Additionally you can do a text search of…