Shaving on Chol HaMo’ad the Never-ending Controversy
…this topic. The reaction was summed up by R. Hayim Yosef Azulai, the Hida (Yosef Ometz, no. 7), ואולם בו בפרק ראיתי אשר תיכף אזרו חיל הגאונים רב של ברלין…
The Image of the Menorah in the Early Printed Hebrew Book
…Merian’s illustrations see Cecil Roth, “Ha-Haggadah ha-Metsuyyeret she-bi-Defus,” Areshet 3 (1961), 22-25; Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Haggadah and History (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2005), plates 59-62, 67, 69. [11] See…
R. Isaac Arama, R. Kook, Mordecai Kaplan, and more
…כי גנוב הוא את החכם דון יצחק מדעת המעתיק לנוצרים בפרוש דניאל In the introduction to his edition of Akedat Yitzhak, R. Hayyim Joseph Pollak mentions Abarbanel’s unacknowledged use of Arama’s…
New Book List December 2007
…commentary from R. H. Kupperman – 269 pages. The authenticity of this work will be discussed in a future post at the Seforim blog. Tosaot Chaim from R. Eliyahu De…
Augsburg and its Printers
Augsburg and its Printers: Printer of the Tur in Ashkenaz: Fragments Censored at the Beinecke’s Augsburg Mahzor By Chaim Meiselman Chaim Meiselman catalogs rare books for the Joseph Meyerhoff Collection,…
‘Yikar Sahaduta Dipum Bidatta’ R. Tzvi Hirsch Levin, the Besamim Rosh and the Chida
…in R. Yisroel Chaim Tessler’s comprehensive overview of the history of R. Saul Berlin and the Besamim Rosh in Pe’alim LaTorah (vol. 34 pp. 226-229). Modern books of Hebrew Bibliography,…
