The American Yekkes
…of Israel to Ashkenazic Lands,” This explanation of the origin and migration of Germanic peoples to the Rhine Valley differs from that of many academic historians who argue that the Germanic…
Teffilah Zakah: History of a Controversial Prayer
…Abraham ibn Ezra, fulfills this purpose). R. Abraham Ashkenazi (Brit Abraham, Warsaw, 1884, no. 129) offers a different reason for Teffilah Zakah. The purpose according to him, is to accept…
KEDUSHAH, KEDOSHAH, OR B’K’DUSHAH in KEDUSHAH D’YESHIVAH?
…also apropos. Asked which mode of prayer is preferred, Ashkenazic or Sephardic, he answers that the Sephardic is preferred but “what we pray according to the formulations of Ashkenazi prayer…
Recent Notes On Hebrew Pronunciation
…up until the common era, decisors would represent the western sound of “OW” (as in “brown” and Ashkenazi surnames with “baum” in them) in Yiddish and Yiddish-influenced written Hebrew as…
Comments on This and That, part 2
…them. [And so they remained] until the men of Hezekiah came and interpreted them. I already quoted a couple of times from R. Moses Isaac Ashkenazi’s Ho’il Moshe, so let…
Disputatious Divorces: Public Controversies over Gitten and Couple Relations
…controversial divorce known as the Tamari-Venturozzo Affair, after its participants, Samuel (Shmuel ha-katan) ben Moses Ventura of Perugia, known as Venturozzo and Tamar, the daughter of Joseph ben Moses ha-Kohen…
The Pew Report and the Orthodox Community (and Other Assorted Comments), part 1
…by their community to marry Ashkenazim. (Poor Sephardim were also given a higher charity subsidy than Ashkenazim.) [3] See Be’er Moshe, vol. 4, no. 146:26-27, where R. Stern speaks very…
The Cup for the Visitor: What lies behind the Kos Shel Eliyahu?
…some Ashkenazi Jews that leave an empty glass in the middle of the table for the leftovers of each cup of wine, and they call it Kos Shel Eliyahu. He…
Kuntres ‘al Inyan Shabbat HaChatuna – A “Found” Book
…but left off perhaps the most comprehensive discussion of this usage in R. Shmuel Ashkenazi’s Alfa beta kadmita, pp. 210-18. In all, Shmuel Glick should be commended for an excellent…
Ha-Osek be-Mitzvah Patur min ha-Mitzvah: The Case of Prayer and Torah Study
…the name of the Ravad, etc. See R. Asi ha-Levi Even Yuli, Shulhan Aruch ha-Middot, vol. 2, Halachah u-Musar (Jerusalem: 2009, 243–244). [5] See R. Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi’s magnificent commentary…
Rabbi Steinman and the Messiah, part 1
…Leib Steinman, who was backed by R. Hayyim Kanievsky. The opponents, known as the Peleg, were led by the late R. Shmuel Auerbach. While people are aware of the wild…
Simchas Torah and its Customs Including an Appendix from: R’ Chaim Zev Malinowitz Zt”l Celebrating Simchas Torah All Year Round
…Torah (530 pp.) See also the Recently published comments of R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi, in Igrot Shmuel pp. 273-274, 291-293 to his Friend Avraham Yaari. Many later authors who wrote on…
The Physician-Ḥaver in Early Modern Italy: A Reunion of Long Forgotten “Friends”
…the prominent rabbinic figures in Padua- Rabbi Shimon Heilpron, Rabbi Dr. Yitzhak Hayyim Cantarini, himself a medical graduate of Padua (1664), and Rabbi Shmuel David Ottolenghi. Lay leaders of the…
The Netziv, Reading Newspapers on Shabbos in General & Censorship (Part Three)
…1, pp. 198-255. Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, R. Moshe Shmuel Vidoro, pp. 46-48 translated part of these memoirs of Lilienthal into Hebrew but not this passage. This was already noted by…
Approbations and Restrictions: Printing the Talmud in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam and Two Frankfurts
…Loeb of Cracow, R. Samuel ben Joseph Schotten ha-Kohen, R. Baruch ben Moses Meir Rappaport, R. Ezekiel ben Abraham of the house of Katzenellenbogen, R. Menahem Mendel Ashkenazi, R. Isaac Aaron…