…thread.] After completing this post R. Chaim Rapoport sent me an article of his on Jewish attitudes on Copernicus which will be published shortly, in the next Or Yisroel (I…
…in her father-in-law’s house. R. Joseph Messas (Mayim Hayyim, vol. 2, Orah Hayyim no. 140) points out that Shabbat 6:6 refers to Arabian Jewish women going out veiled, which means that their…
…Maimonides and His Interpreters, pp. 6, 68 n. 275. [16] See my Iggerot Malkhei Rabbanan, no. 120. Copies of this work are available here. [17] Nefesh ha-Hayyim 2:17, 4:28. [18]…
…this text sees here an indication that the Hafetz Hayyim’s son was also involved in the writing of the Mishnah Berurah (as he claimed), since the Hafetz Hayyim himself would not do…
ענין הריגת עשו והמסתעף Shlomo (Steven) Flamer is a fourth-year medical student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He previously studied at Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim (Queens, NY), and holds…
…See also his Chazon Ovadiah (Tu B’Shvat), pp. 453–455. 30. Tehillat Chaim, 2, Bnei Brak 1995, pp. 183–184. 31. Nimikei Aruch Chaim, 225; Rabbi Shabtzvi Liphshitz, Sefer Ha-Eshel, erech Baalei…
