Megilat Rut: The night of Boaz and Rut Revisited
…Yevamot 40a. [9] Ad loc. [10] Similarly later when Ashkenazi Jews encouraged halitzah, a financial incentive was used for this too, see Rema, Even Haezer 163:2. [11] Maybe this is…
The Princess and I: Academic Kabbalists/Kabbalist Academics
…ed. Lawrence Fine (New York: NYU Press, 1995); Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism, eds. Karl Erich Grozinger and Joseph Dan (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1995); Kabbalah and Modernity: Interpretations,…
Elliott Horowitz responds to David Kaufmann on Bugs Bunny
…of that in the Bible between wily Jacob and Esau the hunter, visually back to the hares pursued by hounds in sixteenth-century Ashkenazi illustrated Hagadot, such as those of Prague…
Pesach, Haggadah, Art & Sundry Matters: A Recap of Important Seforimblog Articles
…discussed here, and demonstrated that it preserves the Ashkenazi practice of only requiring supervision from the time of milling and not when the wheat was cut. The illustration accompanying the…
New Sefer Announcement – פירוש התורה לרבינו אברהם בן הרמב”ם, ספר שמות
…now being made available in the form of critical editions of the works of R. Saadia and R. Shmuel b. Chofni Gaon. The result has been the identification of many…
A Short Note Regarding an Illustrated Title Page and A Possible Unicum
…and Other Hebrew Book Rarities,” Judaica Librarianship 18 (2014), 130-53. [7] See Shmuel Weiner, Daat Kedoshim: Pesak Herem: Mazkeret Rabanei Italiah (Petroberg: Berman Press, 1897), 38**; Aviad Cohen, “Diuknot Hakhamim:…
