…readers should know the truth. As a proud Litvak who has the honor to chair a small but resilient Jewish community I have been part of many difficult struggles during…
…page of Jastrow’s introduction to his dictionary. Read the last paragraph. Here is the first page of Philip Birnbaum’s introduction to his translation of sections of the Mishneh Torah.[11] The first…
Notes on the Book of Samuel, and the Eternal Sanctity of the Temple in Maimonidean Thought By Rabbi Avi Grossman avrahambenyehuda.wordpress.com Rabbi Label Dulitz, who passed away last week, was…
…their use of the book. Thus, a couple of weeks ago the Hiddushei HaBach were published on portions of the Talmud. Spiegel has an amazing discussion about the Hagot haBach….
…gedolim as saintly individuals devoid of human flaws or weakness, R. Kamenetsky authored a book whose content was subject to a single test: the test of truth.[4] It is for…
…replete with communal activities and prominent sages, but sadly, are poorly recalled today, if at all, except in academic and historical circles. One such location is Lissa, Leszno in Polish….
…multi-section work entitled Ohalei Yaakov Otzar HaHokhmot. Zahalon’s medical work is labelled as section two, Hokhmat HaRefuah, the only section in the Vatican manuscript. Below is the section describing the…
…their collection, and how and why they amassed them. The first thing that readers will note is that only the last two are Jewish. Even in the case of David…
…Jews to England under Cromwell. Lunzer noted that one of the books on display, from the collection of Westminster Abbey, was improperly labeled, and was in fact a volume of a Bomberg Talmud….
…similar educational path. See the biographical sketch published originally in Yated Neeman with contributions from Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky and Sharon Katz, entitled “Rav Yisroel Shurin, z”l: A Revered Rav and…
…was saved. He was thereafter known by this act of great strength. The אמים are mentioned a few times in the Torah. The Ramban refers to the verse that states,…
…counterpart to him. Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh. (Genesis 2:18, 24) As a rose among…
…the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture. Edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,…
…death. I believe that what he states can be used to support the argument that brain death is equal to halakhic death. Here are the pages. The matter of antinomianism,…
…where you can go back to the old issues of the YU newspapers, the yearbooks, Torah journals etc. and see the truth. Yet because of how this will look in…