Keser vs. Kesher: What’s In A Name?
…classic Ashkenazis – which KI’s founders surely spoke – meaning Crown of Israel). I soon noticed that below the words ‘Kesher Israel Synagogue’ on the cornerstone of KI’s current building (pictured…
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Questions – Part II
…the accuracy of text. This fact was not lost on the chief editor Shmuel Shraga Feiginsohn as he states in the famous Achris Davar at the end of Maseches Nidah….
Was Avraham a Lamdan?
…sefer Mili D’Avos (by R’ Shmuel Yaffah, Lakewood 5770). Recently, seforim which collect divrei torah on the parshah from different sources have gained popularity.[9] One of the first of this…
Review: Daniel Sperber, On Changes in Jewish Liturgy
…typo it should read Shmuel Askenazi. p. 36 see also D. Rabinowitz, “Rayna Batya and other Learned Women: A Reevaluation of Rabbi Barukh Halevi Epstein’s Sources,” Tradition 35 (2001). p….
Attack on Rabbinic Judaism and Historical Orthopraxy
…until 1852 and Modena died in 1648. The work was first published by Isaac Shmuel Reggio (YaSHar) a rather interesting character in his own right. [As an aside, Reggio was…
New Journal Announcement: Mekhilta
…with Hillel’s various recent works (printed in limited editions) on some forged works, including Megilat Kuzin and Agudat Shmuel (on the strange Hagahot found in many editions of Rashi on…
Surrounding Independence Day
…2024): 3-4 (Hebrew).] [1] Rashi to Arakhin 9b s.v. Sheneihem; Rabbi Simcha Vitry, Machzor Vitry II, 581 (Hebrew). [2] Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel, “Allusions and Derashot on Yom Haatzmaut,” in Aaron…
Magnes Press Sale
…text Catholic Censorship and Hebrew Literature in the Sixteenth Century; two books from the Italia series one devoted to Shmuel David Luzzato (Shadal) and other about R. Yehuda Areyah of…
The Agunah Problem, part 2; Wearing a Kippah; More Censorship by ArtScroll
…we have been discussing should consult R. Shmuel Gartner’s detailed book, Kefiyah be-Get (Jerusalem, 1998). A 2000 page book with the title Mishpat ha-Get has just appeared. I have not yet seen it but…
Minhagim Books No. 1
…was Talmid Shmuel ben Tzodok, or Tosefot Shimon ben Tzodok, Tosefot Shimon ben Yoitz, orTikkun instead. The book was supposedly written when R. Meir was imprisoned. The book collects all…
Hidden Treasures in Jewish Medical History at the British Library: A Post Cyber-Attack Homage
…are either authors or recipients of these poems include Salomon Conegliano,[8] Isaac Hayyim Cantarini,[9] and Shmuel David Ottolenghi.[10] While the earliest poem in the JTS Library is from 1643, and…
A Comprehensive (or close to it) List of New Seforim
…This current edition is printed beautifully, however, they edited out all the notes of Delmedigo’s student, R. Shmuel as well as some of the other stuff that were originally printed…
A Footnote on What the Chasam Sofer Did Not Say
…1893. The editor of the three-volume set was an אדם גדול, a grandson of the Chasam Sofer, Rav Shimon Sofer (1850-1944). He was the son of Rav Avraham Shmuel Binyamin…
The censorship of Rav Kook and other Hebrew books on Hebrew book databases
…are no recorded stories of any famous rabbi winning guess the number of jelly beans in a jar contest. [9] On the use of obscure abbreviations see Ya’akov Shmuel Speigel,…
Toil of the Mind and Heart: A Meditation in Memory of Rabbi Yehoshua Mondshine
…this volume is a newly edited edition of the seminal commentary to the Tanya by one of the principal educators in the original Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim, Lubavitch—Rabbi Shmuel Groinem Estherman…