The Head Movements of Shema’
…of the Hebrew letters. In the Ashkenazic community, the differentiation between dalet degushah (hard dalet, indicated by the dot or dagesh mark) and dalet rafah (soft dalet, lacking the dagesh…
Waiting Six Hours for Dairy- A Rabbanite Response to Qaraism
…action was performed in between. Some Ashkenazi rishonim required only kinuach ve’hadach; others required birkas hamazon. Rashi [23] (as cited by Siddur Rashi and Manhig) and Rashbam [24] required birkas…
Bibliography of English Translations of Medieval and Modern Rabbinic Bible Commentaries
…1993 J. Ecclesiastes 1. Shahar BS1475.3. A413 1992 K. Daniel 1. Shahar/Oratz/Hirshfeld (Jerusalem: Feldheim, 1994) XXIII. Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi [1512-1585] A. Esther 1. Brown (PhD, BHU, 2006) XXIV. Keli…
On the Times Commonly Presented for Birkat HaL’vana, Part 3
…at least visible in Israel, but once again, it was not visible in Northeast Europe, in places where the Ashkenazic aharonim had lived (Fig. 5). The true molad, the lunar…
Charles H. Manekin — Moritz Steinschneider’s Indecent Burial
…lands. After characterizing Ashkenazic Jewish life as one of “segregation in government, trade and society; expulsion, inquisition, agitation, and persecution” and Ashkenazic Jews as possessing “a surplus of mental acumen,…
New Book: The Living Tree: Studies in Modern Orthodoxy by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
…courts – for example, Sephardic and Ashkenazic – in one city, since he explains the prohibition of making divisions “lest it appear that we are acting in accordance with two…
