Gelatin, Supposed Retractions, and Abraham Goldstein, Part 1
…Aug. 1942, p. 19) 6) Rabbi Shmuel Pardes, Avnei Shmuel, Berurei Halacha, #19 7) Rabbi Yosef Konvitz, Divrei Yosef, vol. 1, p. 172 8) Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzenski, Achiezer, vol….
Hirschian Humanism After the Holocaust: An Analysis of the Approach of Rabbi Shimon Schwab
Hirschian Humanism After the Holocaust: An Analysis of the Approach of Rabbi Shimon Schwab By Rabbi Shmuel Lesher Rabbi Shmuel Lesher is a Machon Beren Kollel fellow at RIETS /…
Review of Rav Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky’s Taharas Yisroel
Review of Rav Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky’s Taharas Yisroel By Shmuel Lubin Shmuel Lubin is a doctoral candidate in biology and creator of “The Rishonim” podcast. ר‘ צבי הירש גראדזענסקי טהרת…
Will the Real Shas Kattan Please Stand Up
Will the Real Shas Kattan Please Stand Up[1] Shmuel Lubin Shmuel Lubin is a doctoral candidate in biology and creator of “The Rishonim” podcast. There is an old tradition commonly…
WHEN HISTORY IS HIS STORY A Review of R. Dovid Kamenetsky’s “Rabeinu Chaim Ozer: Raban Shel Kol B’nei Ha’golah”
…another one in Warsaw in which a rebbe from Socatchov – either R. Avraham or his son R. Shmuel (the Shem M’shmuel) did participate. He takes this opportunity to remind…
Rabbi Eliezer Brodt on Haggadah shel Pesach: Reflections on the Past and Present
…there and Alpha Bet Kadmitah D’Shumuel Zeira from R. Shmuel Ashkenazi pg 239 and onwards. [3] See also Elbogen, Ha-Tefillah b’Yisrael, pg 86- 87; M. Bar Ilan, Sisrei Tefilah pg…
Some Assorted Comments and a Selection from my Memoir. part 1
…values the work. Diskin is a legendary figure and was identified with the more extreme elements of the Jerusalem Ashkenazic community. For this reason he often did not see eye…
There is No Bracha on an Eclipse
…that posek does not make a bracha.[2] a. This contrast is made clear in the context of Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner — who is the most clear and direct articulator…
Review of Quntres
…of just that. As Dan Rabinowitz has pointed out in a prior post, R. Shmuel Aboab authored an ethical work which critiqued some of the perceived laxity of the day…
Apostates and More, Part 1
…– see Shmuel Ashkenazi, Asufah (Jerusalem, 2014), pp 53-55. [3] See Joseph Samuel Bloch, Zikhronot Mimei Hayai, trans. S. Shalom, (Tel Aviv, n. d), vol. 1, pp. 84ff. [4] See…
Two New Seforim for sale
…and I was able to print his marginal notes in this current edition. Further, R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi had written two letters to his good friend R’ Avidah regarding this sefer….
There is No Bracha on an Eclipse
…is נסתפק, that posek does not make a bracha.[2] a. This contrast is made clear in the context of Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner — who is the most clear and…
Shavuah ha-Sefer 2008: A Recommended Reading List
…Only time will tell if they will continue to print both sizes. [The Keter series now has Berashit Vol. 1 and 2, Yehosuha, Shoftim, Shmuel alef and beis, Melachim alef…
Lag Ba-Omer and Upsherins in Recent Jewish literature: Revisionist History and Borrowing and Plagiarism
…raises the older, although less known, custom of going to the grave of Shmuel ha-Navi (again close to Lag Ba-Omer) (p. 384). In doing so Freund quotes an early source…
New seforim list with some random comments
…article of Rabbi Asher Miller which is a nice collection of comments on Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazi’s recent work Alpha Beta Tenyusah DeShmuel Zeira. ו. עץ חיים גליון יז –ניתן לקבל…