…Yevamot 17a), it is attributed to his grandfather, R. Hayyim. After mentioning R. Hayyim’s position that descendants of Jews in Spain who identify as Christians are to be regarded as…
…fall into that genre are murky, but one that has a long history is Hayim ben Attar’s Or ha-Hayim. The first edition, Venice 1742, (lot 49), in a very nice…
…In the late 1990s, Schacter wrote an article for the jubilee festschrift honouring his teacher Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009), entitled “History and Memory of Self: The Autobiography of Rabbi Jacob…
…the club. In the comments section, readers took much more issue with the opinion of Rabbi Bar Hayim that I mentioned at the outset than they did with any of…
Review of Ha-Sefer ha-Kollel (Kitāb al-Ḥāwī) by Rabbi David ben Saʿadya al-Ger Marc Herman Marc Herman is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and a core member of…
…of Adar. Rabbi David Bar-Hayim’s view is that the transformation from optional to mandatory fasting occurred because later rishonim believed they lived in time of שמד – hence fasting was…
