Rav Shmuel Ashkenazi: a Hidden Genius
Rav Shmuel Ashkenazi: a Hidden Genius By Eliezer Brodt This Monday night is the first yahrzeit marking the passing of a unique Talmid Chacham, R’ Shmuel Ashkenazi of Yerushalayim, at…
Cherubim: Winged Celestial Beings on the Title-Pages of Early Hebrew Books
…and the Shmuel Bukh are composed in the same verse-meter. Moreover, the title-page states that “Shmuel is the first part of the book Melokhim, for it is all related.” Nevertheless,…
Beyond the Masthead of the Beys Yaakov Journal, 1923-1980 – Part 2: ‘Abomination’ or Scandal? Mistranslation, Journalism, and the Halivni Controversy
…the New School of ‘Talmud Critics’!” Beys Yaakov, vol. 10, no. 4 [#116] (1969): 4-5 (Hebrew), available here, with translation in Appendix 1 below. ↑ See Shmuel Ashkenazi, Iggeret Shmuel,…
The Birkhat ha-Mazon as an Early Modern Supplementary Prayerbook
…Title Page. This edition is missing the title page and several pages at the beginning. Bibliographical information is taken from NLI catalog entry. 2. Contents. 1. Birkhat ha-Mazon. 2. Tehinnah…
Haftaros of Vayetze and Vayishlach – A Mistake Rectified
…Amsterdam.[21] The first printed chumash with Ashkenazi Haftaros was the Soncino, printed in Brescia in 1492. It had the Haftara beginning at 12:13, following most other Ashkenazi sources. The 1517…
Jewish Communal Workers, Preacher’s Kid Syndrome, and Sefer Shmuel
…2:12-22 and Shmuel I, 8:1-5. ↑ See for example the ideas mentioned in Rashi to Shmuel I, 2:22 and Radak to Shmuel I, 8:2. ↑ Ralbag (רלב”ג) is the acronym…
