The Ancillary Benefits of Non-Jews on the Hebrew Book
…Morteira (1596-1660). As Dr. S. Z. Leiman has noted (see Ali Sefer 10 [June 1982]: 153-55; reprinted in Givat Shaul, ed. Hayyim Eliezer Reich [Brooklyn, NY: [n.p.], 1991]) there is…
Eli Meir Cohen: A Question of Mesorah?
…the famous Yaakov Ben Hayyim 1525 edition of Mikraot Gedolot published in Venice that printed a seemingly inconsistent pattern in the pronunciation of the different occurrences of this word. In…
Benjamin Richler: “Putting the Pieces Together: The ‘discovery’ of Gershon b. Meir Heilprin (Heilbronn)”
…Heilprin (Heilbronn) Benjamin Richler The manuscripts in the collection of the great bibliophile Heiman (Hayyim) Joseph Michael (1792-1846) were purchased in 1848 by the Bodleian Library in Oxford University. One…
The Alleged Blindness of R. Jacob Joshua Falk During the Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy
…What follows is a summary list of some key sources, and their dates. 1. Wednesday, August 7, 1754 (=19 Av, 5514). The חיד”א (R. Hayyim Yosef David Azulai, 1724-1806) met…
Mysteries of the Magical Fifth Passover Cup (II): The Great Disappearing Act
…found in Orhot Hayyim, Hilkhot Tum’ah, vol 2, p. 602, and apparently in our case regarding the stringency of not drinking water. In this case, the development of a stringent…
Ghosts, Demons, Golems and their Halachik Status
…the local or time period. R. Hayyim Yosef David Azulai (Hida) discusses “groups of women who go out to the forest” and conduct rituals with music and it seems they…
