…an Eastern Ashkenazic rite, as Western Ashkenazic rites (as well as the Lithuanian Eastern rite) always recite an akeidah before the pizmon. [8] The presence of שמע קולינו is also…
Update about Igrot Shmuel: Possible Second printing sign up By Eliezer Brodt Less than two weeks ago I announced the publication of R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi’s monumental collection of letters, Igrot…
…Rokeah published in Fano in 1505.[6] But that title page is really one of the more basic forms of the title page, known as a “label title page” providing only…
…and grasses are in rows, and everything is so clean, it is a testament to human intelligence. Every plant is labeled. There are plants from America, Portugal and Turkey all…
…story that appears under the heading על זיוף המשנה ברורה. The Satmar Rebbe was away from home and asked his assistant, R. Joseph Ashkenazi (who is the source of the…
…of his desire not to appear as a competitor with Even Shmuel, he then goes on to attack Even Shmuel’s translation mercilessly. He even states that Rabbi Judah Halevi composed…
…culture. Doing so led to a highly romanticized depiction of Sephardic Jewry, one where they were seen as superior to Ashkenazim in nearly every way—a curious, if not troubling, Ashkenazic…
…בספר R. Ashkenazi recognizes that the words גט פטורין appear in Onkelos, but he thinks the other two words are original to R. Judah. (This shows that R. Ashkenazi did…
…impasse, we reached out to Professor Shnayer Z. Leiman, who suggested that the scholar most likely to solve the mystery would be the doyen of Israeli bibliographers, Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazi.[5]…
…Journal 5:1 (Tammuz 5765): 1-6. Additionally, parts of the material on this topic of claiming that people forgot, comes from R. Shmuel Ashkenazi’s article “Helem Davar u-Tous Sofer.” Ashkenazi’s article…
…Hagada Shleima (R. Shmuel Ashkenazi and R. Menachem Kasher) siman 36. [2] https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8860&st=&pgnum=155 [3] The 1526 Prague Hagada also contains a version of Adir Hu in German, printed in Hebrew…
…in the Piyutim of R’ Shmuel ben Hoshana[3] written for these Parshiyot.[4] It would seem that Jeremiah 16:19 was chosen for Behar because the prophet’s pronouncements of “Cursed is the…
Censorship in the Sefer Chofetz Chaim? (Another chapter of R. Shmuel Ashkenazi‘s Latest Work) Unfortunately, the amount of responses regarding assisting the publication of R. Ashkenazi‘s work was underwhelming (we…
…Zevin, Ishim Veshitos, (2007), pp. 17-18; Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, R. Moshe Shmuel Ve-doro, p. 54. [11] Of course, there were many Poskim who were against reading newspapers even during the week. See,…
The Saga of Publishing the Works of Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner: The Issue of Inclusion of Zionism and Rav Kook by David Glasner David Glasner, an economist at the Federal…