Who was Reb Shlomo?
…rolled into one, with a touch of Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain.[1] Indeed, Shlomo just didn’t seem to fit into any restrictive defining label. Menachem Daum, in a video report…
Igrot Shmuel: Possible Second printing sign up
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…
A Few Comments Regarding The First Woodcut Border Accompanying The Prague 1526 Haggadah
…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…
Kitniyot and Stimulants: Coffee and Marijuana on Passover
…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…
The Satmar Rebbe and a Censored Mishnah Berurah, and R. Baruch Rabinovich of Munkács
…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…
Translations of Rabbi Judah Halevi’s Kuzari
…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…
Jews in Wonderland
…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…
Post-Mosaic Additions to the Torah?
…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…
A Gemeinde Gemeinheit
…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]…
Forgetfulness & Other Human Errors a New Monography by Marc Shapr
…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…
On the History and Development of Nirtza
…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…
The Haftarot for Behar and Behukkotai
…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?
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…
The Netziv, Reading Newspapers on Shabbos, in general & Censorship (part one)*
…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 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…