Bein hashemashot: A Reevaluation of the Texts Part IV
…Shmuel’s assertion about 1, 2 and 3 stars is likely to mean that one star can still occur during daytime, but two stars only (If we assume that bein hashemashot…
Jews, Drinking & Kiddush Clubs
…R. Y. Goldhaver, Minhagei ha-Kehilot, Jerusalem, 2005, vol. 1, 200-208. R. Goldhaver’s work includes notes by the prolific and encyclopedic R. Shmuel Ashkenazi. On this topic of taking a break…
Review of Jay R. Berkovitz’s The Pinkas of Metz
…(pp. 30-31) Sources for the Law What do we Know about the Jewish Community of Metz at the time? Berkowitz writes: Metz was the western-most outpost of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jewry…
A Conversation With Professor Marcin Wodziński on Hasidism
…other courts in other towns, and his youngest son, Rav Shmuel, remained in Lubavitch. This was only slowly regained by his grandson, Rav Shalom Dovber, but his was a time…
Fixing a Typesetting Error in Order to Understand The View of the Mishnah Berurah on Women Wearing Tefillin
…exempt from all mitzvot, including tefillin, and he lacks the basic credibility that even a Jewish woman has to label food items as prohibited or permissible, so two of the three…
Finders Keepers? The Itinerant History of Strashun Library of Vilna, Pt I
…the JNUL, Scholem colluded with a Jewish American serviceman to smuggle the works out of Offenbach. Scholem placed the collection into five boxes but did not label their contents and…
The Custom of Azharot on Shavous
…mind and that his merits should help us. However R. Shmuel Ashkenazi has already pointed out based on the Sefer Tachmoni that this story is not true and instead, R….
Plagiarism, Halakhic Paradox, and the Malbim on Kohelet
…also not correct and is taken from the source he plagiarized from. Now compare what Weitzman wrote with what appears in R. Shmuel Hayyim Katz’s Devar Shmuel (Los Angeles, 1986). Weitzman…
A Little-Known Rabbi Doctor and his Exceedingly Rare Medical Diploma Leon Cantarini- AKA Yehuda HaKohen Katz Me-HaHazzanim (University of Padua, 1623)
…is Leon Cantarini. Leon, the son of Shmuel Cantarini, was one of eight children and a member of a prominent dynastic family in Early Modern Italy. Leon was also known…
Sefer HaNer on Mesechet Bava Kamma
…in HaNer Bava Metziea (Sakosa lRoshi). R’ Eliezer Brodt once mentioned to me in the name of R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi that R’ Rotstein was not fluent in the language and…
A Tribute to Rav Shlomo Elyashiv, Author of Leshem Shevo v-Achloma: On his Ninetieth Yahrzeit
…other Kabbalistic schools, see Shmuel Ehrenfeld, Yar’ucha Im Shemesh: Klalim bi-Derech Limmud Torat HaRashash (Yam HaChochma, 2014). The interface between the Rashash, psychoanalysis and the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty will be…
In Search of Memory:Towards an Understanding of Baladhur
…Lerner in his Shmirat Haguf VeHanefesh (2:794). However both Meir Benayahu and R. Shmuel Ashkenazi have pointed out that all these people are quoting it wrong, as the Sefer Hakanah…
The Proselyte Doth Protest Too Much
…quotation is actually from Yalkut Shimoni, Shmuel Aleph 8:26 (and quite similarly in the Midrash Shmuel Chapter 13) but the Abarvanel mistakenly cites “Perek Kohen Gadol” in Maseches Sanhedrin as…
Modena, Gilgul, and an Unpublished Letter
…Shmuel Aboab (1610-1694), author of the Davar Shmuel (as well as Sefer Zikrohonot, discussed here, and Tavat Dovid) was one of the leading rabbis in Italy and Europe of his…
Book Announcement: New edition of the Seder Hadorot
…הנמצאים בכ”י וראשונים היה שמחים לקראתם Many years ago, during one of my first meetings with R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi z”l, the Seder Hadorot came up. He asked me if I…