Candles on Yom Kippur: Reinstating a Lost Minhag
…the synagogue to be the standard, widely practiced, custom. Mateh Ephraim even records its Yiddish moniker, dos gezunteh licht – the light of health and well-being (603:8). And yet in…
Marc B. Shapiro – Forgery and the Halakhic Process
…by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein. Licthenstein’s father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph Baer Soloveitchik (of Boston) expressed to Rabbi [Hayyim] Heller his amazement that the same obscure opinion of Mordecai in Niddah was to…
New Seforim and Books 2015
…the Missing 168 Years, Mosaica Press, 256 pp. 7. Dovid Lichtenstein, Headlines: Halachic Debates of Current Events, OU Press, 462 pp. 8. Elisheva Baumgarten, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz, Penn…
