Rashi Devarim 26:17-18….. הֶאֱמַ֖רְתָּ and הֶאֱמִֽירְךָ֣
…ישמיענו that is recited in Yom Kippur Neilah. ArtScroll, in its Yom Kippur Machzor, p. 746, tells us that סלחתי ישמיענו was written by “R’ Shlomo ben Shmuel of the…
Machon Yerushalayim’s Book Week 2011
…Pinkaso Shel Shmuel from the Rashash. This work is a collection of indexes of thousands of topics found in the Rashash’s writings organized according to topics, including topics related to…
Marc B. Shapiro – Forgery and the Halakhic Process, part 2
…entire article based on these letters,[18] and shortly after his article appeared Shmuel Weingarten published his Mikhtavim Mezuyafim Neged ha-Tziyonut (Jerusalem, 1981), showing beyond any doubt that the letters are…
Book review – Nafshi BiShe’elati: The Halakhot of Mental Health
…omission”. I thought of the T.J. Hooper case when reading a most remarkable new book Nafshi BiShe’elati: The Halakhot of Mental Health[2] by Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig and Dr. Shmuel Harris….
Upcoming Kestenbaum Auction #51 – Alphonse Cassuto Collection Part 2.
…a few other books of note are included in this auction. Lot 244 is R. Shmuel David Luzzato’s personal copy of the first Hebrew bibliography by a Jew, R. Shabbatai…
Chaim Rapoport – From Ma’adanei Eretz to Kitvei Ma’adanei Eretz (5704-5767)
…encouragement from Rabbi Shlomo Zalman’s sons, including Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach shlit”a. We also learn that much of the material in the sefer was never intended for publication by Rabbi Shlomo…
When Rav Kook Was the Kana’i (Zealot) and His Opponent the Melits Yosher (Advocate)
…his audience that the Rebbe of Slonim, Rabbi Shmuel Weinberg, offered to support him if he would devote himself fulltime to acting as a maggid or peripatetic preacher.[11] One would…
Mishloah Manot: An Insight of the Rav zt”l
…Har Etzion, 2002), Community, Covenant and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Toras HoRav Foundation, 2005), The YCT Rabbinical School Companion to Sefer Shmuel (Ben-Yehuda Press, 2006), Mikra and Meaning: Studies in…
The Date of the Exodus: A Guide to the Orthodox Perplexed
The Date of the Exodus: A Guide to the Orthodox Perplexed [1] by Mitchell First A pdf of this post can be downloaded here, or viewed here. The Exodus is…
The Seven Nations of Canaan
…the chapter “King David’s Scribe and High Officialdom of the United Monarchy of Israel,” in Benjamin Mazar, The Early Biblical Period: Historical Studies, eds. Shmuel Aḥituv and Baruch A. Levine,…
An “Artscroll”™ Illustration in the Vilna Shas-Masechet Shabbat 98b
…of Yosef Shmuel ben Zvi – seemingly these were concentrated on Zeraim, Kodshim and Taharos The volume on Meseches Shabbos was published in 1715 and the top 4 appear in…
Picturing Pandemic Prayer
…vaccine.[20] Treatment Specific Prayer A lesser known, event specific, prayer was composed by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfat: מודִים אֲנַחְנוּ לָךְ ה‘ אֱלהֵינוּ וֵאלהֵי אֲבותֵינוּ אֱלהֵי כָל בָשָר….
The Origin of Ta‘anit Esther
…the Sages, ed. Shmuel Safrai, 399-400. [19] This Palestinian practice may even have preceded the Babylonian practice of fasting on the 13th, although this cannot be proven. [20] See my…
The Image of the Menorah in the Early Printed Hebrew Book
…two books that include the illustration, Biurim and Omek Halakha. R. Yaakov ben Shmuel Bunim Koppelman, (1555-1594) studied with R. Mordechai Jaffe, author of the Levush. In addition to traditional…
A Young Man Holding a Torah Scroll and a Young Woman Holding a Book: The Life and Afterlife of Two Illustrations
…up a plan to financially support the establishment of a teachers’ seminary and improve professionally the Bais Yaakov school system, all under the leadership of R. Dr. Shmuel Leo Deutschländer,…