Eliezer Brodt: The Chanukah Omission
…back. In 1891, Chaim Slonimski wrote a short article in Hazefirah (issue #278) questioning why there is no mention in Sefer Hasmonaim and Josephus of the miracle of the oil…
Teffilah Zakah: History of a Controversial Prayer
Teffilah Zakah: History of a Controversial Prayer* Yom Kippur has many unique prayers, many of them have been added through the centuries. For instance, R. Hayyim Yosef Dovid Azulai (Hida)…
Stolen Title Pages: The Case of An Unknown Contemporary Plagiarist
“Stolen Title Pages”: The Case of An Unknown Contemporary Plagiarist* The title of this post – “Stolen Title Pages” – is not mine, instead, I have borrowed it from Chaim…
Lag Ba-Omer and Upsherins in Recent Jewish literature: Revisionist History and Borrowing and Plagiarism
…R. Hayyim Vital, whose source was the Arizal. In truth, it is a mistake to give R. Vital credit for this. The source of this mistake was based on a…
“Is taking my husband not enough?” (Gen 30:15)
…Nahmanides and the Or ha-Hayyim – to posit that Leah was complaining that Rachel was supplanting her in their relationship with Jacob. Nahmanides explains that Leah alleged that Rachel was…
The Golem of Prague in Recent Rabbinic Literature
…3, 2010. 15. R. Hayyim Levi, “המהר”ל זי”ע” Ha-Ma’or 63:1 (2009), p. 84. 16. R. Hayyim Yosef David Azulai (d. 1806), שם הגדולים השלם , Jerusalem, 1979, vol. 1, p….
