Partnership Minyanim and More
…relying on numerous rishonim, has ruled that if necessary a woman can read the Purim megillah for men (which might arise if no men know how to read it).[6] If the…
Eliezer Brodt: The Chanukah Omission
…similar to Mesechet Purim of R. Klonymus the manuscript was printed in Areshet (3:182-191) [See also I. Davidson in Parody in Jewish Literature pg 39]. One of the things we…
Index
…11 Jewish Holidays (154) Purim 32 · Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur 30 · Pesach 23 · Chanukah 23 · Sukkot & Simchat Torah 16 · Shavuot 12 · Fast…
Lag B’Omer through the eyes of a Litvak in 1925
…descriptions available is found in a letter written by a student of R. Chaim Ben-Attar (1696-1743) in which he writes that R. Chaim went to Meron the day after Purim…
New seforim, books and some random comments
…ואגדה, 77 עמודים This work is well done and collects a nice amount of material on Purim of Saragossa. Just to add two important sources on this subject not quoted…
Tevie Kagan: The Enigmatic R. David Lida Part II
…discusses the rabbinic claim that when the messiah comes all holidays will be nullified except for Purim. This saying had become a popular adage among the Sabbateans, since Shabbatai Zevi…
Rabbi Steinman and the Messiah, part 1
…teaching in Yalkut Shimoni, Mishlei no. 944: “All the festivals [i.e., Yom Tov Sheni] are to be abolished in the future [messianic era], but Purim will never be abolished.” Elsewhere,…
Churches, Ronald McDonald, and More
…proclamation that appeared before Purim, signed by a number of Sephardic rabbis including a member of the Shas Council of Torah Sages. In addition to declaring that children cannot dress…
R. Hershel Schachter, Gedolim, Rachel Morpurgo, and More
…died and was buried on Purim. She was also able to write riddle poems, which was a popular genre among the Hebraists. Here is one from pp. 76-77 3. In…
Some Literary, Scholarly & Halachic Perspectives on Medieval Ash
…Yom Ha’Kippurim and the two Zipporim of a Mezora (יומא דף ס”ב ע”א – ע”ב, ועיין תוספות ישנים שם, ציינו בגליון הש”ס בסנהדרין). Although Halbertal might argue that the derivations…
Rabbi Joseph Hertz, Women and Mitzvot, Antoninus, the New RCA Siddur, and Rabbis who Apostatized, Part 1
Rabbi Joseph Hertz, Women and Mitzvot, Antoninus, the New RCA Siddur, and Rabbis who Apostatized, Part 1 Marc B. Shapiro 1. In my last post here, in discussing R. Joseph…
Tarnopol: A short-lived early 19th century Hebrew press
…ha-Torah; Tikkun Kriat Shema with the appropriate kavvanot; Tikkun shel Erev Rosh Hodesh; and Tikkun Malkhut on Rosh Ha-Shanah and Yom ha-Kippurim. Omitted are the approbations and Hannover’s introduction that…
Answers to Quiz Questions and Other Comments, part 1
…S.’s post here. He points to an early eighteenth-century communal decree in Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek forbidding attendance at the opera, except for on Hanukkah and Purim when it was permitted. The text…
Is Tu-beshevat a Sabbatian Holiday?
…In the community of Worms there was a rather interesting permentation of the custom. As R. Jousep Schammes in his Minhagim de Kehilah Kedosha Vermaysa, states: On Purim and the…
Assorted Matters
…of interesting information appears on p. 106, where in a 1938 letter Gugenheim writes: “Tomorrow [the day before Purim] will be a day of fasting. Here, they are rather meikil…