Reading Over the Brisker Rav’s Shoulder
…section of Ashkenazi society, are even more valuable. They preserve actual data from an otherwise lost history of Jewish culture and raise a host of fascinating questions, which are now…
Marc B. Shapiro – Responses to Comments and Elaborations on Previous Posts II
…had published the view of the Steipler and R. Chaim Kanievsky that even Sephardim should pronounce the final vowel of אד-ני as Ashkenazim pronounce the kamatz, since otherwise it appears…
Some Recollections of R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, Love Before Marriage, and More
…(and in traditional Jewish societies, in both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic worlds, such a notion was hardly found at all). Any love between husband and wife is said to come…
Three New Books
…the most prolific of the classical poets in the Land of Israel, whose poems reached Europe, and some of them are recited in Ashkenazic and Italian synagogues through today. The…
Stet in the Beit Yosef: Fish and Milk, from Typographical Error to Typological Exemplar
…R. David abi ibn Zimra, R. Bezalel Ashkenazi, and R. Isaac Luria – had ample access to the developments in Cairene medicine that inspired the Tadhkirat passage. His relationship with…
Marc B. Shapiro – Forgery and the Halakhic Process, part 3
…I remember that the side that supported gashem was able to show that it was not only grammarians who supported this reading, but R. David Lida (c. 1650-1696) Ashkenazi rav…
