Interview with Professor Lawrence Kaplan
…don’t want his books in their communities – okay, that their right, it’s their communities. But to issue general bans is a different story [21]. BP: But to return to…
Cherubim: Winged Celestial Beings on the Title-Pages of Early Hebrew Books
…and the Shmuel Bukh are composed in the same verse-meter. Moreover, the title-page states that “Shmuel is the first part of the book Melokhim, for it is all related.” Nevertheless,…
Marc B. Shapiro – Clarifications of Previous Posts
…אולי for אפשר לחלק. In doing so he softened Archivolti’s point. Whereas Archivolti was stating that one can distinguish between teaching a grown woman and a small girl, Epstein has…
Rav Shmuel Ashkenazi: a Hidden Genius
Rav Shmuel Ashkenazi: a Hidden Genius By Eliezer Brodt This Monday night is the first yahrzeit marking the passing of a unique Talmid Chacham, R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi of Yerushalayim, at…
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…
The Birkhat ha-Mazon as an Early Modern Supplementary Prayerbook
…Venice, 1623. [NLI] 1. Title Page. Order of Blessings According to the custom of the holy community of Ashkenazim, may their Creator protect them: Commissioned by and printed by their…
