Mezuzah Revisited. Parshat Vaetchanan.
Mezuzah Revisited. Parshat Vaetchanan. By Chaim Sunitsky. Rashi on this Parsha (Devarim 6:9) says that since the word Mezuzot is written without the Vav[1], only one Mezuzah is necessary. It’s…
Megilat Rut: The night of Boaz and Rut Revisited
Megilat Rut[1]: The night of Boaz and Rut Revisited By Chaim Sunitsky In a well known story of Megilat Rut, Naomi tells Ruth to bathe herself, put on her [best]…
Mikva Revisited – Understanding Shabbat 13a-b in light of Parshat Metzora
Mikva Revisited – Understanding Shabbat 13a-b in light of Parshat Metzora by Chaim Sunitsky (with some additional comments by Marc B. Shapiro) It is well known that when describing the…
Some Notes on Verifying the Authenticity of the Alleged Rav Yisrael Salanter Photographs
…in 1883. 2. In 1954, the earliest of the 3 extant photographs of R. Yitzchak Lipkin was published by his grandson, R. Hayyim Yitzchak Lipkin (1911-1988).[3] It appeared as follows:…
Eliezer Brodt – The Origins of Hamentashen in Jewish Literature
…hamentashen have with Purim? Hayyim Schauss explains that in actuality the origins of the hamentashen are not Jewish, rather, we originally appropriated them from another culture. He explains that: “the…
Two New Books – Two Further Examples of Censorship
…in Jerusalem in 1908. In this edition they have included the haskamot (approbations) from the original book which include, inter alia, R. Yosef Hayyim Sonnenfeld and R. Hayyim Berlin. But,…
