A Few Comments Regarding The First Woodcut Border Accompanying The Prague 1526 Haggadah
…Rokeah published in Fano in 1505.[6] But that title page is really one of the more basic forms of the title page, known as a “label title page” providing only…
Carmi Horowitz: A Critique of Two New Reprints
A Critique of Two New Reprints by Carmi Horowitz * Two new works have recently appeared on the market: a new edition of Midrash Lekah Tov and a new edition…
The Mysteries of Hoshana Rabbah
…Sefer HaTishbi, Erech Hoshana. [5] See Biur Hagra, 660;1, 664;12; R’ Shimon Horowitz, Biur Marsha (on Sefer Tanya Rabbasi), p. 198; R’ Elyukim Horowitz, Zichron Yerushalayim p. 50. [6] See…
Crafting the Commandments
…rather than commands. Supporting these with scriptural proof texts, he labels them with the solo term mitsvah, a label that he also uses to designate rabbinical directives. The scriptural mitsvot…
The Chanukah Omission
…However, Rabbi Dovid Horowitz in an article in Hapeles turns the historical difficulty on its head when he argues, based on Tosafos, that the person who wrote the Hebrew parts…
The American Yekkes
…(Nanuet, New York: Feldheim, 2008) pp. 102-3. [54] Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, “The Torah of Life, As Understood by Rav S. R. Hirsch,” The World of Hirschian Teachings, ed. Elliott Bondi,…
