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…
Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn – A Multi-faceted Erudite Scholar
…Isaiah Horowitz (Shelah ha-Kodesh), the last, along with R. Kalonymus ben Samuel ha-Kohen, providing approbations. There is an introduction in a single column in rabbinic type from Heilbronn, who writes…
Dorshei Yichudcha: A Portrait of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson
…apple of Your eye”). In his monograph on the Hasidic mystic R. Aaron haLevi Horowitz of Starosselje, “The Seeker of Unity,” Louis Jacobs records from R. Chaim Meir Hillman’s Beis…
