…patriarch of the illustrious and rabbinical Diskin family. In this article, Licht reproduced hitherto unknown letter written by R’ Yehoshua Leib’s son, Binyomin Diskin to the maskil, Shmuel Yosef Finn. In that…
…lists the names of R. Yisrael’s (and his wife Esther’s) six children (four sons and two daughters): Malkah Hindah, Shmuel, Aryeh Leib, Hodah Libah, Yitzchak, and Yom Tov Lipman. [11]…
…R. Shmuel David, “Teshuvot Ba’al Peh shel ha-Rav Aharon Lichtenstein,” Tzohar 40 (2016), p. 32: ?שאלה: רווקה מבוגרת, כבת 41, מבקשת היתר לקבל תרומת זרע מגוי כדי לזכות להיות אם,…
…error… —Mazal Tov Afterword by Jeffrey Saks Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes (1887–1970)—later, Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon—began his literary career in the newspapers of his native Galicia. Starting in 1904, dozens of…
…from these sources that Rabbi Yehudah ha-Kohen ha-Zaken and Rav David (cited by his son Rav Shmuel), both students of Rabbeinu Gershom—and Rabbi Samuel bar David, ruled to read the…
…to Shlomo Carlebach…. [7] Shmuel Ettinger, Chimen’s closest friend from his Jerusalem days, passed away suddenly in 5, Hillway while visiting. [8] See also here for a short video about…
