Response to Criticism Part 4; Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and the Hazon Ish
…Ish is R. Elijah Dessler. The young man to the right of R. Dessler is Yehuda. The man on the far left is R. Shmuel Rozovsky. Here is another picture…
R. Flensberg, Donkeys, Antelopes and Frogs
…use god’s name, only a word, that in this context refers to god only if read incorrectly. See also Ya’akov Shmuel Spegiel, Amudim be-Toldot Sefer ha-Ivri: Ketivah ve-Hatakah, Bar Ilan…
Woe Is Unto Whom?
…את ביתי ושרפתי את היכלי והגליתים לבין האומות The meaning of the statement reported by R. Yitzchak bar Shmuel and R. Yose seems straightforward: God is expressing the magnitude of…
Book Announcement: Volume Five of Amudim beToldot haSefer haIvri
…of great interest to readers of the Seforim Blog, the fifth volume of, Amudim be-Toldot ha-Sefer ha-Ivri by Professor Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel, of Bar-Ilan University’s Talmud department. As I have…
R. Avraham ben haGra: A Victim of Plagiarism?
…Hebrew Booklore 3 (1961): 426; and Rabbi Shmuel Strashun mi-Vilna (Jerusalem, 1957). [5] For an excellent and significant survey of nineteenth century rabbinic scholars who researched and published the Midrashic…
R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin and Yeshiva Students being Drafted to the Army, views of women, and more
Shlomo Yosef Zevin and Yeshiva Students being Drafted to the Army, Views of Women, and More Marc B. Shapiro 1. In an earlier post I wrote about R. Shlomo Yosef…
