Lekah Tov – What’s in a Name?
…in the beginning of R. Hayyim Vital’s Etz Hayyim, is attributed to Najara in several manuscripts. R. Yom Tov ben Moses Zahalon: Commentary on the book of Esther by R….
Hebrew Printing in Lissa (Leszno), A Brief (Perchance) Transitory Moment
…population. La-Yesharim Tehillah – Among the first titles published by the press is La-Yesharim Tehillah, a drama by the renowned kabbalist R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto’s (Ramhal, 1707–1746). Ramhal is best…
Two Books by R. Bezalel Naor, R. Meir Simhah of Dvinsk, Michael Lerner, and More
…and Sefer Yetzirah (including Naor’s suggestion that a halakhah in the Mishneh Torah was influenced by Sefer Yetzirah[3]), and analysis of R. Hayyim Soloveitchik’s commentary on various halakhot of the…
Rabbi Yitzhak Hutner’s View of Torah Im Derekh Eretz and a Hidden Haskamah Rediscovered
…Hutner (1906-1980), the longtime dean of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin of Brooklyn, New York had a unique and eclectic approach to Torah, spirituality, and Orthodox society life in the 20th…
The Porto family: Eminent Sages, Scholars, and Prolific Seventeenth Century Authors
…‘the desirable of the young men” (cf. Ezekiel 23:6, 12, 23) such as R. Samuel Hayyim Bassan of Verona, a student of R. Samuel Meldola.” There is a dedication to…
Rare Letters, Controversial & Valuable Hasidic Books – Genazym Auction
…Sperber, Minhagei Yisrael (Jerusalem: Mossad HaRav Kook, 2007) index “leshem yihud”). Similarly, the Sh”ut Mayyim Hayyim (lot 18) by R. Hayyim Rapoport we have discussed at length here. The work establishes…
