“Improved” Making of a Godol
R. Nathan Kamenetsky has republished the first volume of his book, “Making of a Godol.” This new edition is labeled “Improved Edition.” The reasons for the improvements are well-known. The…
Rambam’s Response to the Inclusion of Chicken, Duck and Quail in Qaraite Cuisine
…careful to conceal his view: I conjectured further that Maimonides deliberately withheld the scriptural designation from certain commandments that had been labeled as scriptural in the ShM (=Sefer…
What Did the Willows Ever Do to Deserve Such a Beating? An Original Explanation for a Perplexing Custom
…שיבת ציון, whose members included חגי זכריה ומלאכי as well as other leading scholars of that period), they are not labeled as מנהג נביאים. What significance is to be found…
Lithuanian Government Announces Construction of a $25,000,000 Convention Center in the Center of Vilna’s Oldest Jewish Cemetery
…and one of the most important in all of Europe. Ms. Kukliansky labels those who disagree with her as “simply uninformed” or having a particular axe to grind. She does…
ArtScroll and More
…to show that commenters should be very careful before labeling something as am ha’aratzus, as you never know whom you might be insulting with this comment. 4. The latest book in…
Notes on the Book of Samuel, and the Eternal Sanctity of the Temple in Maimonidean Thought
Notes on the Book of Samuel, and the Eternal Sanctity of the Temple in Maimonidean Thought By Rabbi Avi Grossman avrahambenyehuda.wordpress.com Rabbi Label Dulitz, who passed away last week, was…
The Pitfalls of Disagreeing with the Gra
…literature, Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, etc. and collected the relevant statements to create a “talmud” (it is even labeled as such – the legend on the page reads Gemara) on the…
Can Orthodoxy Decide Its Own History?
…years – a יובל (which the Torah labels ” לעולם [forever]”) – to have enough of a cumulative effect to erase one world and bring a new society in its…
Hebrew Printing in Lissa (Leszno), A Brief (Perchance) Transitory Moment
…question of misdating or incorrect labeling. The 1825 Vienna was seen and a comparison of the two editions show that it is as described, a separate, independent, and apparently slightly…
The Physicians of the Rome Plague of 1656, Yaakov Zahalon and Hananiah Modigliano
…multi-section work entitled Ohalei Yaakov Otzar HaHokhmot. Zahalon’s medical work is labelled as section two, Hokhmat HaRefuah, the only section in the Vatican manuscript. Below is the section describing the…
Jewish Treasures From Oxford Libraries
…window labelled ‘Jewish Heritage’ in the middle of the homepage of Oxford Chabad www.oxfordchabad.org opens up a surprisingly academic and scholarly range of material on Jewish Oxford. Both recommended! [2]…
The Greatest Story in the Annals of Jewish Book Collecting
…Jews to England under Cromwell. Lunzer noted that one of the books on display, from the collection of Westminster Abbey, was improperly labeled, and was in fact a volume of a Bomberg Talmud….
New Volume of Rav Ovadiah Yosef’s “Hazon Ovadiah,” on the halakhot of the Four Fasts, the Three Weeks, Nine Days, Tisha B’Av, and Zekher le-Hurban
…Finally, after all that, Rav Ovadiah returned to the Yom Tov series, Chazon Ovadiah, starting with Purim than Hilkhot Yom Tov. He then continued with Pesach, Succot, Yomim Noraim and…
Yehuda Azoulay’s Maran: The Life and Scholarship of Hacham Ovadia Yosef
…BeShevat, Purim, and Holidays, where he wrote that the material in those volumes are based on his articles in Kol Sinai forty years earlier. [13] Sha’ah Tovah interview with Naim…
Eliezer Brodt: Review of Halikhot Shlomo, by R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
…they published a second volume discussing the Yom Tovim starting with Rosh Hashana until and including Purim. (Last year they released a limited edition of the Pesach section.) And this…