Who is Buried in the Vilna Gaon’s Tomb? A Contribution Toward the Identification of the Authentic Grave of the Vilna Gaon by Shnayer Leiman 1. Prologue This essay attempts to…
Life After Death: The Afterlife of Tombstone Inscriptions in the Old Jewish Cemetery of Vilna By Shnayer Leiman The ultimate purpose of any Jewish cemetery is to provide a resting…
…in some of the discussions regarding demon wranglers and golem makers, see Dr. Leiman’s post on “Did a Disciple of the Maharal Create a Golem?” and the post “Ghosts, Demons,…
…Anonymous, “A Letter Regarding ‘the Frankfurt Approach’,” ha-Ma’ayan, vol. 6, no. 4 (1966): 4-7 (Hebrew) A translation of this anonymous essay appears in Shnayer Z. Leiman, “From the Pages of…
…did two things. Firstly, I wrote to Dr. Shnayer Leiman and asked him about the Kitzur Shelah and its use of the word Nezer Rosheinu. This is what Dr. Leiman…
For Nachi and Matt and their love of noses. I heard the following from Dr. Leiman. In the Hatam Sofer’s yeshiva in Pressburg, it was the custom for all to…
…rather than commands. Supporting these with scriptural proof texts, he labels them with the solo term mitsvah, a label that he also uses to designate rabbinical directives. The scriptural mitsvot…
…of Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg”, Judaism, 40 (1991), pp. 61-78; Shnayer Leiman, “The Adventure of the Maharal Of Prague in London: R. Yudl Rosenberg and the Golem Of Prague” in Tradition…
The Recently Published Photographs of Rav Yisrael Salanter: Real or Imaginary? By Shnayer Leiman As early as 2006, and continuing through 2022, a flurry of photographs, purporting to bear the…
…special friend Menachem Butler, various academics wrote some praises about the significances of these letters; to partially quote one letter written by the esteemed Professor Shnayer Z. Leiman: Reb Shmuel…
…remain, a landmark of Torah literature. To echo (via paraphrase) the words of Dr. Shnayer Leiman in these pages a number of years ago, said in connection with a different…
A Note on R. Bezalel Alexandrov’s משכן בצלאל and its Prenumeranten By Shnayer Z. Leiman Not much appears to be known about R. Bezalel Alexandrov (circa 1850-1930). Born in Grodno, he would…
…Western and Central Europe,” Sections on Isaac Bernays and Jacob Ettlinger. [58] Marc Shapiro, “Great Figures in Rabbinic Judaism”, Classes on Samson Raphael Hirsch, www.TorahInMotion.org. See also Shnayer Leiman, Judaism’s Encounter…
…this edition at all.’ Another contemporary scholar who has written extensively on the Emden-Eybeschuetz controversy is the frequent contributor to the Seforim Blog, Professor Shnayer Z. Leiman. When he was…
A Footnote on What the Chasam Sofer Did Not Say By Shnayer Leiman The Problem. I’m the proud owner of a copy of Rabbi Shimon Finkelman’s Rav Pam: The Life…