Ghosts, Demons, Golems and their Halachik Status
…Sefer Yetzirah and thus was able to feed them both this meat and milk at the same time. R. Isaiah Horowitz in his work Sheni Luchot HaBrit (Shelah) similarly understands…
R. David Nieto’s Matteh Dan, Life on Other Planets and Jewish Reactions to Copernicus
…the time (over twenty are printed and he received even more) amongst them the Adres, R. Eliezer Moshe Horowitz, R. Eliezer Gordon and R. Eliyhua Chaim Miesles.[See also Archos Rabenu,…
Kitzur Shelah, Sabbatianism, and the Importance of Owning Old Books
…Shelah, authored by R. Yehiel Michel Epstein, which although its title implies is merely an abridged version of the Shelah (Sheni Luchot HaBrit) by R. Isaiah Horowitz, is much more…
Zafenat Pane’ah—A Further Example in the Titling of Hebrew Books
…ha-Defus (Jerusalem, 2014), pp. 115-16 [Hebrew]. [11] Ch. Friedberg, Bet Eked Sefarim, bet 341. [12] Yehoshua Horowitz, “Auerbach, Isaac Eisig ben Isaiah,” Encyclopaedia Judaica, vol. 2, pp. 654-655. [13] Concerning…
Plagiarism, Halakhic Paradox, and the Malbim on Kohelet
…See R. Yaakov Avraham Cohen, Emek ha-Mishpat, vol. 4, nos. 2, 24; R. Yaakov Hayyim Sofer, Hadar Yaakov, vol. 5, no. 38. R. Isaiah Horowitz, Shenei Luhot ha-Berit: Masekhet Shevuot, no. 71, writes about…
On Libraries, Bibliophiles & Images: Taj Auction 13
…Torah applied a more systematic approach to Jewish literature. R. Shabbetai Seftil, the son of R. Yeshaya ha-Levi Horowitz (Shelah or Shelah ha-Kodesh), traveled from Frankfurt to Pozen via ship….
