Akedah, Art, and Illustrations in Hebrew Books
…is a notable exception. In 1685, the work Pachad Yitzhak was published in Amsterdam. This book, written by Rabbi Dr. Isaac Vita (or Hayyim) Cantarini (see note 1), is about…
Pandemic Bibliopenia: A Preliminary Report of Disease Eradication
…Lev, vol 1, E. H., n. 57, p. 114b Hayyim Biyad n. 79, p. 98a In a letter to Rabbi Hayyim Yehudah Avraham, published in the latter’s Ahi vaRosh[20] Palachi…
Jordan S. Penkower – Some Notes Regarding the First & Second Rabbinic Bibles
…the Latin material. (2) The second Rabbinic Bible was published by Bomberg in Venice, and completed in 1525. The editor of this edition was Jacob ben Hayyim Ibn Adoniyahu (who…
Stet in the Beit Yosef: Fish and Milk, from Typographical Error to Typological Exemplar
…was elucidated in Orah Hayyim 173. In his 2014 “A Guide to the Complex,”[1] Shlomo Brody highlights this passage – which invokes a heretofore ostensibly unknown ‘danger’ regarding consumption of…
The Agunah Problem, part 2; Wearing a Kippah; More Censorship by ArtScroll
…בשום עיכוב מצד תביעת ממון. אלא צריכים לילך לפני ב”ד לסדר התביעות בענייני ממון ולסדר נתינת וקבלת הגט. R. Moshe’s approach was anticipated by R. Hayyim Palache in the 19th century….
Temple Service on Yom Kippur
…became Ikrei haKorbonot. R. Yisrael Meyer Kagan, (Hafetz Hayyim) promoted the republication in 1910 and according to the publisher, the Hafetz Hayyim himself wanted to republish this book due to…
