R. Isaac Arama, R. Kook, Mordecai Kaplan, and more
R. Isaac Arama, R. Kook, Mordecai Kaplan, and more by Marc B. Shapiro 1. In the last post I discussed R. Isaac Arama. In his Conversos, Inquisition and the Expulsion of the Jews…
[1]: א״ל הקב״ה … יודע אני כוונתו של אהרן היאך היתה לטובה On a Short Wedding Wish to the Lichtensteins from the Pen of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg
…ocean in the United States, Rav Lichtenstein has just received semikhah from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, having completed his doctorate in English literature at Harvard two years…
Apostates and More, Part 1
…commentary is preceded by a helpful article on Lichtenstein by Jorge Quiñónez. Lichtenstein’s revised commentary on Matthew can be seen here.[24] There is an entry on Lichtenstein in Zalmen Reyzen’s…
Tracing the “Footsteps of the Messiah”: From Li-Nevukhei ha-Dor to Maamrei ha-Rayah
…example, https://seforimblog.com/2010/10/marc-b-shapiro-new-writings-from-r-kook/, https://seforimblog.com/2011/02/new-writings-from-r-kook-and-assorted-3/, https://seforimblog.com/2011/02/new-writings-from-r-kook-and-assorted_22/, https://seforimblog.com/2011/04/new-writings-from-r-kook-and-assorted-2/, https://seforimblog.com/2011/08/new-writings-from-r-kook-and-assorted/. [4] Available for purchase at https://kodeshpress.com/product/rav-kooks-guide-for-todays-perplexed/. [5] Some knew of its general existence, and its purpose, but it is not clear to what extent…
The Enigma of Abraham Rosenberg, R. Yitzchak Scheiner, Mordecai Kaplan, and Prof. Marvin Fox
…a good place to add another point about him. Kaplan’s father, R. Israel, was close to R. Isaac Jacob Reines. (Mordecai Kaplan was actually born in Svencionys, where R. Reines…
An Unpublished 1966 Memorandum from Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan Answers Questions on Jewish Theology
…of Commentary,” Tablet Magazine (18 October 2017), available here. [2] A complete biographical portrait of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan remains a scholarly desideratum. For appreciations of his writings, see “Rabbi Aryeh…
