A Response to Dr. Shapiro: A Defense of the Torah Temimah
…to conscious plagiarism. I found that only two of Epstein’s works show significant signs of plagiarism – Torah Temimah and Tosefes Bracha[2] – whereas the chiddushei Torah cited in Mekor…
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…
Kitniyot and Stimulants: Coffee and Marijuana on Passover
…and grasses are in rows, and everything is so clean, it is a testament to human intelligence. Every plant is labeled. There are plants from America, Portugal and Turkey all…
Marc B. Shapiro – Clarifications of Previous Posts
…at me, believing that I have given ammunition to those who chose to censor and withdraw My Uncle the Netziv. I make no apologies. We must combat falsehoods and plagiarism…
R. Isaac Arama, R. Kook, Mordecai Kaplan, and more
…Abarbanel of plagiarizing from his father, R. Isaac. Abarbanel made heavy use of R. Abraham Bibago, and this also might be considered plagiarism (although much what we would regard as…
Who Wrote the Mekore Minhagim?
…unless Lewysohn could have read Finkelstein’s mind, the latter must be the plagiarizer. But, this is not a simple case. Instead, the appearance of the plagiarism claims in a German…
