Taliban Women and More
…that even in previous years there were those who acted in the same fashion. We see this from R. Pinhas Horowitz’ strong words against this approach in his Sefer ha-Berit, vol….
Azariah de’ Rossi’s Annotations on Sefer ha-Kuzari: Identification and Preliminary Analysis
…The Study of Ancient History in Azariah de’ Rossi’s Writings,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 22 (2007), pp. 49-55; Carmi Horowitz, “Titus and the Gnat in Posen, Prague, and Ferrara: Polemics on…
Rabbi Steinman and the Messiah, part 2
Rabbi Steinman and the Messiah, part 2 Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here 1. R. Yehudah Herzl Henkin has a different perspective than what we have seen so far.[1] He…
Abraham Rosenberg, R. Chaim Heller, R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach on Conversion, Abortion, Mercy Killings, and new pictures and videos of R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg
Abraham Rosenberg, R. Chaim Heller, R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach on Conversion, Abortion, Mercy Killings, and new pictures and videos of R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg Marc B. Shapiro 1. In my…
Stet in the Beit Yosef: Fish and Milk, from Typographical Error to Typological Exemplar
…Prof. Daniel Lasker for their erudite comments and corrections. Thanks to Prof. Markham Geller, R. Judah Kerbel, and R. Noam Horowitz for insights and source materials, and R. Jonathan Duker…
Was Avraham a Lamdan?
…the entry “Avos.” An interesting question that was first posed by R’ Pinchas Horowitz, one of the rebbeim of the Chasam Sofer, in his commentary on the Torah, Panim Yafos,…
Open Orthodoxy and Its Main Critic, part 1
Open Orthodoxy and Its Main Critic, part 1 Marc B. Shapiro Please note: The conversation in the comments, while of importance, does not fit the focus of the Seforim Blog….
Leket Yosher – A Closer Appraisal in Light of a Recent Controversy
…Ashkenaz be-Shelei Yemi HaBenayim, Jerusalem, 1984, pp. 303-5; Zevin, Soferim veSeforim, vol. Teshuvos, p. 14; R. P. Horowitz, Sefer HaBrit, p. 162, discussing the phenomenon of fictional responsa. See also…
Do you recall Hrubieszow? Hrubieszow, Home to an Active Early Nineteenth Century Hebrew Press
Do you recall Hrubieszow? Hrubieszow, Home to an Active Early Nineteenth Century Hebrew Press[1] Marvin J. Heller A barely remembered Hebrew press, one credited with as many as forty books,…
Change Has Come To Modena
…Horowitz [2] Ibid. [3] This matter is in contention and is based on the question of when the book was first printed. S. wrote me “When was the Kitzur first…
The sukkah on Shemini Atzeret controversy
…century, when Rav Isaiah Horowitz, the Shelah HaKadosh, was Rav, in his sefer Yosef Ometz was still able to state that a family, descendant of Troyes, who does not sit…
New Book List December 2007
…topics. The Sefer Mitzvot Tefillen by R. Yeshaya Horowitz, author of the Shelah HaKadosh, was reprinted. This work was first printed by R. Kreizer over thirty years ago with notes…
Gelatin, Abraham Goldstein, R. Moses Isserles, and More, Part 2
…Horowitz mentions an interesting point that in the 1950s there were rabbis who opposed supermarkets selling kosher meat as they claimed that it was forbidden for the meat to be…
Is there a rotten apple in the Tu-BeShevat Fruit Basket?
…(1989), 112; Carlebach, Pursuit of Heresy, 247-49. Regarding R. Eliyahu see Y. Halpern, Pinkas Vaad Arba Arotsot (Jerusalem, 1990) 362; Tzvi Horowitz, Le-Tolodot ha-Kehilot be-Polin (Jerusalem, 1989), 1. The literature…
Rav Aryeh Tzvi Frommer HY”D: סנגורם של ישראל
…See Eretz Tzvi 1:1, 1:60 [49] 1:121 [50] Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowitz (1766–1813). A student of the Chozeh of Lublin (Ya‘akov Yitsḥak Horowitz) with whom he eventually parted ways. See…