Comments on This and That, part 2
…connected to simchah shel mitzvah, such as Purim, a wedding, etc. Concerts are doubly problematic since these gedolim believe that is forbidden to listen to live music when not connected…
Marc B. Shapiro – Responses to Comments and Elaborations on Previous Posts
…question: A rabbi was playing with a young man on Purim and stuck his hands into the pants of the youth. The rabbi claimed that he did so because he…
R. Yitchak Al-fasi’s Anti-Qaraite Legislative Activity
…same date (Jer. 52:4-5). They do not observe the Fast of Esther but celebrate Purim for two days, and on leap years they only observe it in the first month…
Is there a rotten apple in the Tu-BeShevat Fruit Basket?
…On Purim and the 15 of Av and Shevat these were vacation days for the Rabbis, . . . [on the 15th of Shevat] one says tehina even during the…
The Hafetz Hayyim’s Statement on Teaching Torah to Girls in Likutei Halakhot: Literary and Historical Context
…celebration in Purim of 1931 of the school’s tenth anniversary. [6] Yizhak Rafael Ha-Levi Etzion (Holzberg), “The Yavneh Educational System in Lithuania,” in Yahadut Lita (Tel-Aviv, 1972), II, 160-163 [7]…
New Writings from R. Kook and Assorted Comments, part 4
…first alerted me to this (and also expressed his disagreement with the arguments of the author), I thought this was some sort of Purim Torah. But then I examined the…
