Running on the Inclined Plane of the Altar in the Second Temple
Running on the Inclined Plane of the Altar in the Second Temple by Chaim Katz בראשונה … רצין ועולים בכבש, וכל הקודם את חברו לתוך ארבע אמות זכה We read…
Printing of the Arukh HaShulhan: The Missing Line About Rabbi Epstein’s Daughter
…on Hoshen Mishpat, was published in 1884. The volume on Orach Hayyim wasn’t completed until 1909 after R. Epstein had died (he died in 1908). Even after a portion of…
A Short Note Regarding an Illustrated Title Page and A Possible Unicum
…a year of one another. The second printing lacks the images entirely and the first they only appear in Orakh Hayyim, and, although not noted in bibliographies or articles regarding…
An Unpublished 1966 Memorandum from Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan Answers Questions on Jewish Theology
…responsum by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein as published in Shu”t Iggerot Moshe, Orah Hayyim, vol. 1 (New York: Noble Book Press, 1959), 159 (no. 98), dated 13 July 1955. Discovery of…
Mehalekhet Bi-Darka – A Review Essay
…“Sefer Ha-Hayyim” which she copies and compounds an inaccuracy found in Golinkin’s work. In several instances Peuterkovsky quotes excerpts from sources which are misleading. Thus, she quotes short passages in…
Marc B. Shapiro: Obituary for Prof. Mordechai Breuer zt”l
…my “A Letter of Criticism Directed Against the Yeshivah of Eisenstadt,” Ha-Maayan 34 (Tishrei, 5754 [1993]), 15-25 (in Hebrew). [5] Ha-Rav Yonah Merzbach: Pirkei Hayyim, Darko U-Fe’alav (Bnei Brak, 2004)…
