Cherubim: Winged Celestial Beings on the Title-Pages of Early Hebrew Books
…their Lord. And to fear Your name-that is useful and good for them. That man is foolish who acts contrary to Your word.[24] 1544, Shmuel Bukh – The Shmuel Bukh…
A Mild Case of Plagiarism: R. Abraham Kalmankes’ Ma’ayan Ha-Hokhmah
…of plagiarism leveled against R. Abraham Kalmankes by R. Joseph Samuel b. R. Zvi, and seconded by both R. Shmuel Ashkenazi and Gershom Scholem, was not accompanied by any discussion…
The Fundraising Campaign to Print the Letters of Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazi (1922-2020)
The Fundraising Campaign to Print the Letters of Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazi (1922-2020) By Eliezer Brodt Over Shabbos one of the hidden giants of the seforim world, both within ultra-orthodox and…
The History behind the Ashkenazi/Sephardi divide concerning lighting Chanukah candles
…Ashkenazim follow the opinion of the Rambam. Some have taken this as proof of cross-cultural interaction between Sephardim and Ashkenazim. Beit Yosef does indeed say that Sephardic custom is based…
Yehuda Azoulay’s Maran: The Life and Scholarship of Hacham Ovadia Yosef
…minority in the court of three, he could not always convince the two Ashkenazic judges of the importance of his approach.[6] In Jerusalem, he usually served beside the Yemenite Rabbi…
The Birkhat ha-Mazon as an Early Modern Supplementary Prayerbook
…The Ashkenazi prayerbook usually came in either the Ashkenazi rite, which meant Germany, and the Polish rite,[3] which covered the area from Bohemia eastward to Poland and Lithuania. These prayerbooks…
