“New” R. Reuven Margoliyot Book
…Ohr Hayyim haKadosh and Toledot Maharsha. The latter was originally published in Lemberg in 1932 it contains a portrait of the Maharsah (R. Shmuel Edels) as well as a discussion…
Errors in New Kuntras HaTeshuvot
As some have already noted, there is a completely new edition of Boaz Cohen’s Kuntras HaTeshuvot. This edition edited by Shmuel Glick totally reworks Cohen’s work. Supposedly this new work…
Rav Kook’s Attitude towards Keren Hayesod – United Israel Appeal
…“Li-Shelosha be-Elul” (Jerusalem, 1938) §24 (p.22). See also Siĥot Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehuda – Eretz Yisrael (Jerusalem, 2005), 84. On the other hand, R. Shmuel HaKohen Weingarten, who also heard from…
Special Summer sale of books
…ר’ שמואל אשכנזי, 842 עמודים, $52 This is the first volume of Rabbi Shmuel Askenazi’s work printed 12 years ago. This volume is out of print for some time and…
Jacob’s Dream: Reproducing a Talismanic Illustrated Title Page
…beard.) Here is that image in detail: Michael Gottschalk reused the Rabot title page at least five times; in 1695, for R. Shmuel Yaffe, Yafe Anaf, in 1696, Mattityahu ben…
A nay bintl briv: Personal Reminiscences of Rabbis Baruch ha-Levi Epstein and Aaron Walkin from the Yiddish Republic of Letters
A nay bintl briv: Personal Reminiscences of Rabbis Baruch ha-Levi Epstein and Aaron Walkin from the Yiddish Republic of Letters Shaul Seidler-Feller Editor’s note: The present post is part two…
Towards a Bibliography of Coronavirus-related Articles & Seforim written in the past month
…Shmuel Vital of Seder Tefilos based on Kabbalah, to say during such times (item #11). See also #3, Dr. Eddie Reichman’s article on the topic. [5] About Fasting, see Omer…
Some recent seforim
…455 pp. 4. Defining the moment of death, understanding Brain Death in Halakhah, Rabbi David Shabtai, 417 pp. 5. In his ways, Reb Dov (Schwartzman), R. Shmuel Wittow, 189 pp….
Taliban Women and More
…less than an hour away from where we are, that also don’t allow women to drive. [10] See Ma’amar Esther, printed together with Va-Ya’an Shmuel (n.p., 2001), vol. 4, p. 19 (third numbering)….
Hunted Bears, Cantonists and Nazi Victims
…shall presently see a suggestion for why Ibn Lev and Shach do not cite the Yerushalmi. Rav Shmuel Landau discusses whether it is permitted to take action to save particular…
Eliyahu Drinking from the Cup
…those have fallen to the wayside, it would seem the idea that Eliyahu actually drinks from the cup is a form of those methods. Sources: Yerusalmi, Haggadah and History; Shmuel…
Kalir, False Accusations, and More
…Orah Hayyim no. 121 (p. 34a). R. Shmuel Avraham Adler, Aspaklaryah, vol. 27, s.v. shem, pp. 119ff [9] R. Menahem Azariah of Fano acknowledges that when it comes to Elijah-Pinhas, most scholars understood…
Identity of the Unknown Tomb. Who is buried in the unmarked grave next to the Vilna Gaon?
…the Ha-zofe article they include R’ Shmuel ben Avigdor; the Gaon’s father; and son R Avrohom, among those that were moved. Just a quick glance at the headstones in the…
New Auction Catalog
…library and YIVO has sold parts of the library as well); Koheles Moshe, the catalog of St. Petersberg library compiled by Shmuel Wiener considered one of the best bibliography catalogs…
R. Elazar Fleckeles’s Haggadah Maaseh BR’ Elazar
…According to Shmuel Werses, Haskalah and Sabbatianism, (Heb.), pp. 68 and Boaz Huss, KeZohar Harokeyah (p.323) this teshuvah has been censored out of the 1912 edition of TM. I have…