Rav Gorelick, the Rav, and Revision by Omission
…example, see the journal U’lYishrei Lev, volume 11, published in honor of the marriage of a son of Rav Shmuel Yeshaya Keller (son of the late Rav Chaim Dov Keller),…
An (almost) Unknown Halakhic Work by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi and an attempt to answer the question: who punctuated the first edition of the Shulhan Arukh?
…in The Literature of the Sages, Oral Torah, Halakha, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud, External Tractates (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum Ad Novum Testamentum) Fortress Pr; 1987 Part 1 Shmuel Safarai ed, p 352. …
Book Announcement: The Lost Library by Dan Rabinowitz
…told by R’ Moshe Shmukler in his fascinating book, Moshe Shmuel ve-Doro, combines the idea of the voracious reader and a comprehensive library: ר’ חיים עוזר… מלבד בקיאותו הגדולה בתלמוד…
Tzevi Hirsch of Nadworna’s Sefer Alpha Beta
…to the kabbalistic custom of arising at the middle of the night to recite prayers and lamentations over the destruction of the Temple. (Aaron Wertheim (Author), Shmuel Himelstein (Translator), Law…
Cemeteries and Response to Criticism
…can confirm this.) It is worth noting that R. Yitzhak Kaduri paid the grave in Jerusalem no mind, and even joked about it.[4] R. Shmuel Eliyahu has stated that while…
Plagiarism, Citation, and Redemption
…words of the historian Shmuel Feiner the “most famous, up-to-date book on the Hebrew bookshelf at the end of the eighteenth century,” And then, a year after it was published a Rabbi…
