Was Avraham a Lamdan?
…sefer Mili D’Avos (by R’ Shmuel Yaffah, Lakewood 5770). Recently, seforim which collect divrei torah on the parshah from different sources have gained popularity.[9] One of the first of this…
Review: Daniel Sperber, On Changes in Jewish Liturgy
…typo it should read Shmuel Askenazi. p. 36 see also D. Rabinowitz, “Rayna Batya and other Learned Women: A Reevaluation of Rabbi Barukh Halevi Epstein’s Sources,” Tradition 35 (2001). p….
Attack on Rabbinic Judaism and Historical Orthopraxy
…until 1852 and Modena died in 1648. The work was first published by Isaac Shmuel Reggio (YaSHar) a rather interesting character in his own right. [As an aside, Reggio was…
New Journal Announcement: Mekhilta
…with Hillel’s various recent works (printed in limited editions) on some forged works, including Megilat Kuzin and Agudat Shmuel (on the strange Hagahot found in many editions of Rashi on…
Surrounding Independence Day
…2024): 3-4 (Hebrew).] [1] Rashi to Arakhin 9b s.v. Sheneihem; Rabbi Simcha Vitry, Machzor Vitry II, 581 (Hebrew). [2] Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel, “Allusions and Derashot on Yom Haatzmaut,” in Aaron…
Magnes Press Sale
…text Catholic Censorship and Hebrew Literature in the Sixteenth Century; two books from the Italia series one devoted to Shmuel David Luzzato (Shadal) and other about R. Yehuda Areyah of…
