Review of Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot He-Hadash
…the Hida in Machzik Berakha, O”C, 231:1. At the very least, R. Chaim Czernovitz, Sha’ar Ha-Teffilah should be mentioned as it is an attempt to rebut the position of R….
Lecture on the Legend of R’ Yehuda Halevi’s Death and more
…aboutlearning Shas Kotton– Kesuvos Throughout the Ages here and here. Season One of my series devoted to the seforim of Hagaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky Ztz’l was completed a few weeks…
Book Week: 2025
…and Cycles of The Jewish Calendar, 419 pp. Rabbi Friedman, Practical Lessons, Teachings, and Wisdom Inspired by Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz Rabbi Yehoshua Kaganoff, Is Alternative Healing Kosher? Yitzchok Aharon Pinkesz,…
Correction and Apology For an Earlier Post
…the post was a document about Meir Kahane written to President Chaim Herzog by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik in the summer of 1984 which was surprisingly supportive of Kahane. A…
Book Week 2011
…Professors Chaim Soloveitchik, Shnayer Z. Leiman, A. Grossman. M. Rosman, Eric Zimmer, R. Reiner ,Simcha Emanuel and many others (a table of contents is available upon request). Another nice title…
Satmar From As Seen By An Insider: A Review of the New English Biography of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe
…and he wreaks terrible destruction. It’s a totally new derech, and it’s not Toras Emes.” The Rebbe isn’t exactly the open-minded or “eilu ve’eilu divrei elokim chaim” type. I’m curious…
The Man who Tried to Put it All Together: A Hesped for Rav Kook on His Eightieth Yahrzeit
…Mapai party, Chaim Arlosoroff. Suspicion fell on Jabotinsky’s Revisionists, who had been doing rhetorical and sometimes physical battle with Mapai over its willingness to negotiate Jewish immigration with Hitler, and…
Easing the Donkey’s Burden: Nitkatnu Hadorot or Nitgadlu?
…Maimonides, that morality without acceptance of the yoke of Heaven is simply not considered moral. [20] See for example Rabbi Moses Chaim Luzzato’s introduction to Aggadah, found in the beginning…
“Whence Worry?” – On the Murky Trail Of An Aphorism
…Chaim Kanievsky) refers us to the celebrated nineteenth century moralistic treatise פלא יועץ, by the Bosnian-Bulgarian Rav Eliezer Papo: כתיב (משלי יב:כה) דאגה בלב איש ישחנה. ופרשו רבותינו ז”ל (יומא…
Midrash Lekah Tov, part Deux
…by this same Makhon where they reprinted and reset the type of some important unavailable works on the Shulhan Arukh, including R. Chaim Buchner’s Or Chadash, Nachlat Tzvi, and Olat…
Summer 2020 Sale Announcement: Eight New (or newish) book recommendations
…The first book I would like to mention is in English, titled Torah & Rationalism, Understanding Torah and the Mesorah – Writings of Rabbi Aaron Chaim Halevi Zimmerman (216 pp.)….
Depression Angles
…is alleged that R. Chaim of Brisk made havdalah Sunday morning, recognizing that Shabbat ends at (halakhic) midnight, coincident with alot hashaḥar and after the time he had already gone…
The Longest Masechta is …
…by words. In a collection[1] of “trivia” that Rav Chaim Kanievsky was wont to discuss with his grandchildren, it is quoted that he said Berachot is the longest mesechta in…
Mikra Pashut: A New Reading of the Tanakh
…Chaim Sabato (Rosh Yeshivat Yeshivat Birkat Moshe, Ma’aleh Adumim), Rabbi Yuval Cherlow (Rosh Yeshivat Yeshivat Orot Shaul, Tel Aviv), Prof. Haggai Misgav (Hebrew University), Prof. Noam Mizrahi (Head of the…
Bein hashemashot: A Reevaluation of the Texts Part IV
…the opinion of R. Chaim Volozhiner and the appearance of a single star in the spring to an expert observer, Shmuel is more easily consistent with R. Yosef but consistent…