The Chanukah Omission
The Chanukah Omission by Eliezer Brodt Every Yom Tov has its famous questions that show up repeatedly in writings and shiurim. Chanukah, too, has its share of well-known questions. In…
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…
Who was Reb Shlomo?
…rolled into one, with a touch of Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain.[1] Indeed, Shlomo just didn’t seem to fit into any restrictive defining label. Menachem Daum, in a video report…
The Anonymous Author of Tikkunei Zohar and Ra‘ya Mehemna: An Antinomian or a Radical Maimonidean?
…modern mystery novel by Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon [Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1998], p. 44.) One who found absolutely outrageous the labeling of the Mishnah as…
Beyond the Masthead of the Beys Yaakov Journal, 1923-1980 – Part 2: ‘Abomination’ or Scandal? Mistranslation, Journalism, and the Halivni Controversy
…“Ideological Labels Changing Along With the Label-Makers,” The New York Times (12 November 1970): 45,48; Israel Shenker, “Man and Machine Match Minds at M.I.T.: 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Seeks…
Censorship: The Autobiography of R. Eliyahu David Rabinowitz, ADeReT
…here, and Dr. Havlin’s critique here, and Dr. Richler’s critique here of the New Encyclopaedia Judaica. The 1983 edition, however, has been out-of-print for years, and this year, some of…
Kabbala, Halakha and Kugel: The Case of the Two Handed Blessing
…Eliyahu, 1998). [13] Ir Vilna, 35. [14] See Ir Vilna, 102. [15] For more on this building and the history of it and the Gaon’s kloyz see Shlomo Zalman Havlin, “ ‘Ha-Kloyz’ shel ha-Gaon…
R. Isaac Arama, R. Kook, Mordecai Kaplan, and more
…people to turn to? Shouldn’t Copperman have consulted with R. Yitzhak Sheilat or R. Shlomo Zalman Havlin, to give just two names? This is just one example of how some…
Rav Shmuel ben Hofni Gaon
…Havlin and Y. Yudlov, Yerushalayim 1992. While the value of this compilation for any library or scholar of the period can not be exaggerated, not every article published prior to…
Some Observations Regarding Approbations for Hebrew Books
…of how the new version has significant gaps. See Shnayer Z. Leiman’s review of the new edition here and Shlomo Zalman Havlin‘s additional note on the topic here. [2] The…
Index
…Moshe 1 · Hacohen, Aviad 3 · Hakham, Amos 1 · Harvey, Warren Zev 3 · Havlin, S. Z. 1 · Heilman, Samuel 2 · Helfgot, Nathaniel 1 · Heller,…
Kalir, False Accusations, and More
…to Hillman, in this post I misstated his genealogy. Prof. Shlomo Zalman Havlin wrote to me as follows: יש לתקן: הגרד”צ אינו נכד של הגרמ”מ חן הי”ד כפי שכתב [ע”פ האיזכור מבטאון…
Answers to Quiz Questions and Other Comments, part 2
…On p. 632 of the new Yeshurun there is a letter from R. David Zvi Hillman to Prof. Shlomo Zalman Havlin in which he states the following: In the early…
New Seforim, books, random comments and Benny Brown’s Work on the Chazon Ish
…the letter Tzadi, an important source not mentioned can be found in Prof. Shlomo Zalman Havlin’s article in Alei Sefer (12:13-20). Three, Brown claims that the Chazon Ish’s writings and…
Quiz Answers; Response to Criticism; Rav Schwab Writes to the Rogochover
…Zalman Havlin.[6] Let me cite his words, stated with regard to Nizkei Mamon 4:4, as I think they explain well the phenomenon we are discussing and are in line with…