Mishloach Manot of Rabbis and Scholars
…authority of Ashkenazi Jewry served as rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Cracow. In 1556 he was forced to leave Cracow because a plague ravaged the city. He moved temporarily to…
Twenty-Five Years at the Valmadonna Trust Library
…vast ranges of small liturgies of many different rites – Italian, Spanish, Roman, Ashkenazic, Aleppo, Karaite – sitting chronologically on shelves in beautiful bindings. Another area was devoted to Bibles…
Zvi Hirsch Masliansky: Memoirs from the Hebrew Periodical Ha-Doar
…illustrious family were the Lurias, descendants of Rabbi Shlomo Luria (the MaHaRSHaL) or of the Holy Ari [the mystic Rabbi Yitzhak Luria Ashkenazi.] They excelled in both looks and character,…
Can A Segulah Free an Agunah? Jewish Beliefs and Practices for Locating a Drowned Body
…quickly drawn. [12] Beis Dovid, Rabbi Dovid Tebal Ben Yaakov Ashkenazi, Wilhermsdorf, Pg. 31. [13] R’ Shimon Ben R’ Meir, Over Orach, Lemberg 1865, pg. 8. The Sefer Over Orach…
Rosh Hashana 23b – The Missing Map – Were We Deprived of a Map Drawn by Rashi?
…who wrote this commentary while he was in Chevron. He states that his two main teachers were Rav Betzalel Ashkenazi (the author of Shita Mekubetzet) and Rav Chaim Vital. In…
Book Announcement: Gabriel Wasserman’s Haggadah
…them have the nearly identical Hebrew text. Yes, Ashkenazic haggadot have a few songs at the end that are not in most Sephardic haggadot, and some Sephardic haggadot may have…
