Maccabean Psalms? (and more)
…support for their own position.R. Moses Isaac Ashkenazi discusses the authorship of Psalms in the introduction to his Ho’il Moshe on Tehillim (Livorno, 1880). Although he has his doubts, he…
R. Chaim Vital and his Unknown Work Sefer ha-Pe'ulot
…Ashkenazi, Avnei Chain, pp. 221-253; C. Hamberger, Three Worlds, 3:7-10; Ish HaEmunah, p. 81. See also Yuval Harrari, Ha- Kishuf ha-Yehudi ha-Kodom, pp. 298-302 and his piece in The Literature…
Self-Censorship in the Arukh ha-Shulhan, ArtScroll’s Latest Betrayal, and Other Assorted Comments
…not the correct pronunciation. For those who want to see a bit of “Sephardic supremacy” when it comes to pronunciation, see this video where R. Ovadiah really lets the Ashkenazim…
The Strange Shape of the Marcheshet Pan
…כלפי פנים The volume of the Bomberg edition that belonged to Rav Betzalel Ashkenazi the author of the Shita Mekubetzet contains the exact same diagram inserted in the blank space…
A selection from Strictly Kosher Reading by Yoel Finkelman
…married life, and if their “personalities” will enable “the couple to get along with each other.”[21] Furthermore, for medieval Ashkenazic Jews the home was a center of economic life, because…
Some Literary, Scholarly & Halachic Perspectives on Medieval Ash
Some Literary, Scholarly & Halachic Perspectives on Medieval Ashkenazi Attitudes Toward Martyrdom by Yitzhak of בין דין לדין Prose George Eliot, in Daniel Deronda, depicts the ineffable, exquisite Mirah Lapidoth…
