Ghosts, Demons, Golems and their Halachik Status
…married as intercourse with a demon has no effect. Least one say this is all in the realm of theory or not followed, the Beit Shmuel the classic commentary on…
New Books from Biegeleisen
…and here. Kitzur Nahlat Shivah, Shmuel ha-Levi Segal & Asher Anshel Greenwald, ed. Yehezkel Shraga Shwartz, Beni Brak, 2009, 2 vols., 315, 649 pp. This reprint, done by Otzar ha-Poskim,…
The 93 Beit Yaakov Martyrs: A Modern Midrash
…טִבְחָה”. Rav Yehudah said in the name of Shmuel – or it may be R. Ammi, or, as some say, it was taught in a baraita: Four hundred boys and…
A Gift for Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulay: On R. Yaakov Shimshon Senigallia, author of the Machshirei Pischa haggada, and his relationship with Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulay,‘the Chida’.
…– one containing the Sephardic rite and one containing the Ashkenazic rite. The 1788 edition is the second edition of this haggada and it was published in Livorno (Leghorn) by…
Afikoman – “Stealing“ and Other Related Minhagim
…afikoman that I have located is the illustrated manuscript Ashkenazic Haggadah, known as the Second Nuremberg Haggadah, written between 1450 and 1500. On page 6b, the boy puts out his…
Hakirah, Metzitzah, and More
…the topic, since R. Rapoport did not go far enough in his criticism. To remind readers, Hakirah no. 12 had a discussion on homosexuality with R. Shmuel Kamenetsky. This was followed by…
