…miracle, the oil burning for eight days, became the center of a 19th-century controversy involving the polyglot Chaim Zelig Slonimsky. Both Zerachya Licht (“חז״ל ופולמס חנוכה“) and Marc Shapiro (“The…
…of the historicity of Esther (and Daniel), Chaim Heifetz posited that Gaumâta—as a magus-priest and religious absolutist linked to the ancient Median religion—was engaged in a religious conflict against the…
…sentencing. This reading of the gemara in Makot is certainly plausible, although it does run contrary to the reading of the Noda B’Yehuda (Orach Chaim 34, s.v. ela), who assumes that the gemara is…
…ששון עם מקבילות מקורות הערות ושינויי נוסחאות, מהדיר: יהונתן עץ חיים. תורת חיים תהלים, ג’ חלקים This work is a continuation of their excellent Toras Chaim series which is very…
…Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A much earlier “neglected” work important to use when learning these parshiyos is Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan. For Meir Ish Shalom’s edition see here. R’ Chaim Kanievsky commentary…
…OC 4:20:27, but find the view of the Aruch Hashulchan OC 202:3 more analytically compelling. c. Both the suggestions of Rabbi Chaim David Ha-Levi (Responsa Aseh Lecha Rav, 150) that…
