Two New Seforim for sale
…and I was able to print his marginal notes in this current edition. Further, R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi had written two letters to his good friend R’ Avidah regarding this sefer….
There is No Bracha on an Eclipse
…is נסתפק, that posek does not make a bracha.[2] a. This contrast is made clear in the context of Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner — who is the most clear and…
Shavuah ha-Sefer 2008: A Recommended Reading List
…Only time will tell if they will continue to print both sizes. [The Keter series now has Berashit Vol. 1 and 2, Yehosuha, Shoftim, Shmuel alef and beis, Melachim alef…
Lag Ba-Omer and Upsherins in Recent Jewish literature: Revisionist History and Borrowing and Plagiarism
…raises the older, although less known, custom of going to the grave of Shmuel ha-Navi (again close to Lag Ba-Omer) (p. 384). In doing so Freund quotes an early source…
New seforim list with some random comments
…article of Rabbi Asher Miller which is a nice collection of comments on Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazi’s recent work Alpha Beta Tenyusah DeShmuel Zeira. ו. עץ חיים גליון יז –ניתן לקבל…
Aaron the Jewish Bishop
…“R. Israel Lipschutz: The Portrait of Moses,” Tradition 24:4 (Summer 1989): pp. 91-98 (available here). See also the important chapter on this subject in R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi, Alpha Beita Kadmeysuh,…
