Pets on Shabbat, Rabbi Morenu, and Epidemics
…in a modern fashion, but he also trimmed his beard and shook the hands of women. R. Yosef Yozel Horowitz of Novardok was very upset about these things and asked…
The Aderet (part 2); Sonya Diskin and R. Yitzhak Yeruham Diskin; Zvi Glatt; and a New Letter from R. Herzog
The Aderet (part 2); Sonya Diskin and R. Yitzhak Yeruham Diskin; Zvi Glatt; and a New Letter from R. Herzog Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here 1. Regarding R. Kook…
Bibliography of English Translations of Medieval and Modern Rabbinic Bible Commentaries
…Shlah [Shene Luhot Ha-berit = Isaiah Horowitz, ca. 1565-1630] A. Torah 1. Munk BS1225.X33 H613 1999 3 vols. XXVII. Me`am Loez [= Jacob Culi, d. 1732] A. Bible [excluding Ezek;…
“Whence Worry?” – On the Murky Trail Of An Aphorism
…of the Halakah. As such he was acknowledged by his contemporaries Isaiah Horowitz, author of “Shene Luḥot ha-Berit,” and Joel Särkes, author of “Bayit Ḥadash.” He expresses rational views in…
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Questions
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND QUESTIONS By Eli Genauer Authors note: I would like to thank Dr. Peggy Pearlstein and Sharon Horowitz of the Library of Congress…
Cemeteries and Response to Criticism
…that we know that R. Petahiah died and was buried in Frankfurt. R. Markus Horowitz in his Avnei Zikaron (Frankfurt, 1901), p. 290 (no. 2712), published many years after Carmoly’s…
