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…
Surrounding Independence Day
…Passover falls, Purim falls before it. The final sign, Zayin-Ayin (ז”ע), remains unresolved: there was no holiday whose name begins with the letter Ayin that fell on the day that…
Leket Yosher – A Closer Appraisal in Light of a Recent Controversy
…1456, records that he saw Halley’s Comet [7] (vol. 2, pp. 17-8), R. Isserlein used to tell Torah riddles on the first days of Pesach and Shavous and Purim (vol….
How much Greek in “Greek Wisdom”? On the Meaning of Hokhmat Yevanit
How much Greek in “Greek Wisdom”? On the Meaning of Hokhmat Yevanit by Eliyahu Krakowski In the medieval controversies over the study of philosophy, one of the major points of…
Rabbi Steinman and the Messiah, part 3
…is a mistake, but when reading from the Megillah on Purim it certainly is an error, and one that should be corrected. Some people who are careful readers see that…
