The Meaning of the Name “Maccabee”
…Cyrene. Cyrene is in Libya, but presumably Jason spent some time in Judea.[37] He is otherwise unknown.[38] The prevailing view is that Jason was a contemporary of Judah.[39] For example,…
Eliezer and Joseph ben Naphtali Hertz Treves: Hebrew Publishers, briefly, in the Mid-Sixteenth Century
…on Megillat Ruth. But it is not a commentary, rather it is Midrash ha-Ne’elam, the first printing of that section of the Zohar on Ruth. The colophon states that it…
Pashkevilin and Benny Brown’s New Book on The Hazon Ish
…University, whose indefatigable Judaica librarian, Dr. Charles Berlin of the Harvard College Library, has spent decades securing copies of pashkevilin from Jerusalem. In addition, The JTS Library has thousands of…
The Seven Nations of Canaan
…to the left. 28 What food I eat you will supply for money, and what water I drink you will furnish for money; just let me pass through.” Sihon rejects…
Of Tahanun and Yarhrzeit bukhs
…(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 99. [2] On Rabbi Rabbi Oppenheim, see Charles Duschinsky, “Rabbi David Oppenheimer: Glimpses of His Life and Activity, Derived from His Manuscripts in the…
Eliyahu Bachur in Isny
…of southern Germany. Isny was at that time a a free self-governing city organized as a republic within the Holy Roman Empire, then under the rule of Charles V. Eliyahu…
The Besamim Rosh’s Son What Can Be Gleaned from an Introduction
…The editor was the son of R. Saul Berlin, the latter who is perhaps most well-know for editing/authoring the Teshuvot Besamim Rosh. (For earlier discussions of the Besamim Rosh at…