A Few Comments Regarding The First Woodcut Border Accompanying The Prague 1526 Haggadah
…Rokeah published in Fano in 1505.[6] But that title page is really one of the more basic forms of the title page, known as a “label title page” providing only…
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…
Final Response
…that Grossman finds so objectionable? In Limits of Orthodox Theology, p, 126, I quote the following sentence from R. Bezalel Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism (Spring Valley, 1999), p. 8: “The truth,…
Marc B. Shapiro: Thoughts on Confrontation & Sundry Matters Part I
…believe in Shabbetai Zvi even after his apostasy.[33] He certainly opposed their Sabbatianism, and we must oppose the Habad messianism, but one’s religious legitimacy in contemporary Orthodoxy is not destroyed…
Review of Ma'amar al Yishma'el
…Spring Valley, NY, 2008, 220 pp. R. Bezalel Naor, who has published a host of translations and explanations of R. Kook’s writings, as well as Post Sabbatian Sabbatianisms, discussing Sabbatean…
Interesting Legacy Judaica Auction lots
…the Amsterdam 1706, book, Hemdat Tzvi. In that instance, however, the illustrations were used to broadcast the author, Tzvi Hirsch Chotsh’s affinity for Shabbatai Tzvi (see Bezalel Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism,…
Index
…Maimonides & Rationalism 33 · Mussar & Ethics 19 · Sabbatianism & Frankism 12 Rabbinic Biography & Personalities (209) Gedolim: Biography & Hagiography 122 · Vilna Gaon & Lithuanian Torah…
Tevie Kagan: The Enigmatic R. David Lida
…corrupt and immoral (more about this to come in part 2 of this post, R. David of Lida and Sabbatianism). The Yaavetz shows that Lida took the work but left…
Jacob’s Dream: Reproducing a Talismanic Illustrated Title Page
…of R. Hayim Moshe Karinal, Yemin Moshe. [6] Bezalel Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism, (Spring Valley, NY: Orot, 1999),79-82. [7] See Shnayer Leiman, “Sefarim ha-Hashudim be-Shabbta’ot: Rishimat shel ha-Gaon Yavet”z Tzal,” in…
Book week 2022
…Sabbatianism בית מדרש לרבנים JTS מדרש קהלת רבה, ב, ז-יב \ קהלת זוטא ז-ט, מהדיר: פר’ ראובן קיפרווסר ידיעות ספרים בשובך לציון, הרב אהרון ליכטנשטיין והרב יהודה עמיטל, שיחות ליום…
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…