Hayyim ben Benjamin Ze’ev Bochner: Kabbalist, Talmudist, and Grammarian
…a lesser extent. We begin with Orhot Hayyim published in 1654. I Orhot Hayyim – Bochner based his first composition of consequence, Orhot Hayyim, on the Minhagim of R. Isaac…
Rav Gorelick, the Rav, and Revision by Omission
…he used to pepper his shiur with a lot of hashkafa, and a lot of mussar, emunah, he would say over a lot from the Nefesh Hachaim…The year that I…
The Religious-Zionist Manifesto of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Don Yahya
…of his beloved mentor in the Volozhin Yeshivah. In 2018 (coincidentally a century since Rabbi Hayyim’s passing) there appeared in print a Tagbuch or diary, in which Rabbi Hayyim jotted…
An Attack and Defense of the ArtScroll Talmud and Addendum to the Dec. 2007 Book List
…all. The final article in this section is by R. Chaim Rapoport, a frequent contributor at the Seforim blog, and is the most comprehensive of the bunch. R. Rapoport demonstrates…
In Search of Memory:Towards an Understanding of Baladhur
…Ha-Hayyim who says the chulsis is coffee! The Kanfei Yonah writes that although we know that coffee is not so sharp, being that the Otzar Ha-Hayyim was a big hakham…
Towards a Bibliography of seforim related to Shavuos and Megilas Rus (both new and old) – updated
…Shorshei Minhag Ashkenaz, 4:344-369. See also Eliezer Brodt, Halachic Commentaries to the Shulchan Aruch on Orach Chayim from Ashkenaz and Poland in the Seventeenth Century, PhD, Bar Ian University) July…
