Pets on Shabbat, Rabbi Morenu, and Epidemics
…he tells us that one of the leading members of the Ashkenazic community of Amsterdam named his dog after R. Emden’s father, as a way of showing how he despised…
Abraham’s Chaldean Origins and the Chaldee Language
…speak the language of his nation (Est. 1:22), marking the utter end of the language of Babylon. Interestingly, R. Moshe Ashkenazi Halpern (c. 1555)[29] writes in his work Zikhron Moshe…
Foie Gras “Fake News”: A Fictitious Rashi and a Strangely Translated Ethical Will
…a delicacy today rightly associated with the French who are indeed by far the largest producers and consumers of it, was for much of history an Ashkenazi Jewish expertise. This…
Assorted Comments
…in almost all early sources from the Sephardic world, as well as in many from the Ashkenazic world. However, at Ashkenazic weddings (and I believe at all Sephardic weddings as…
Hayyim ben Benjamin Ze’ev Bochner: Kabbalist, Talmudist, and Grammarian
…[6] Ch. B. 3Friedberg, Bet Eked Sepharim, (Israel, n.d.), mem 2174 [Hebrew]. [7] Chaim Tchernowitz, Toledoth ha-Poskim, II (New York, 1946), pp. 260-61 [Hebrew]. [8] Shmuel Ashkenazi, “Tyrnau, Issac” vol….
Some Unusually “Liberal” Statements by Mainstream Rabbinic Figures
…to speak so inappropriately about outstanding sages such as R. Ovadiah Yosef, R. Meir Mazuz, R. Shlomo Amar, R. Aharon Leib Steinman, and R. Shmuel Auerbach. Unfortunately, this approach has…
