Jewish Treasures From Oxford Libraries
…window labelled ‘Jewish Heritage’ in the middle of the homepage of Oxford Chabad www.oxfordchabad.org opens up a surprisingly academic and scholarly range of material on Jewish Oxford. Both recommended! [2]…
The Greatest Story in the Annals of Jewish Book Collecting
…Jews to England under Cromwell. Lunzer noted that one of the books on display, from the collection of Westminster Abbey, was improperly labeled, and was in fact a volume of a Bomberg Talmud….
Tikkun Olam Revisited
Tikkun Olam Revisited Shmuel Lesher Shmuel Lesher is the assistant rabbi of the BAYT in Toronto, Canada. You may reach him at shmuel.lesh@gmail.com. Tikkun Olam, translated as either “healing the…
Benefits of the Internet: Besamim Rosh and its History
…Yechezkel Shrage Lichtenstein, Suicide: Halakhic, Historical, and Theological Aspects, Tel-Aviv, 2008, pp. 438-44. See also,Yeshurun 13:570-587 especially pp.578-581; Marc B. Shapiro, “Suicide and the World-To-Come,” AJS Review, 18/2 (1993), 245-63. …
Guide and Review of Online Resources – 2022 – Part I
…Sholom Licht, and my father and brother for looking over previous drafts of this piece, and providing very helpful comments and feedback. Of course, the final product is mine, for…
Book review: Asaf Yedidya, Criticized Criticism – Orthodox Alternatives to Wissenschaft des Judentums 1873 – 1956
…Meir Lichtenstein. However, as far as I know it has not produced any “school” of methodology. R’ Shagar ultimately rejected the academic method. See the collection of his essays, B’toraso…
Gems from Rav Herzog’s Archive (Part 2): Sanhedrin, Dateline, the Rav on Kahane, and More
…18 footnote 22 , Shiurei Ha-rav (Sanhedrin) page 27. See also Leaves of Faith (volume 1) pages 121 and 134, where Rav Lichtenstein attributes this approach to Rav Moshe Soloveichik….
Joshua Berman: What Orthodoxy Can Gain From Academic Biblical Studies
…composition in Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, (3 vols.; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976) 1:155. [18] F. A. Hayek, The Political Ideal of the Rule of Law (Cairo: National…
Sinful Thoughts: Comments on Sin, Failure, Free Will, and Related Topics Based on David Bashevkin’s new book Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought
…in Jewish thought. By emphasizing similarities we sometimes gloss over fundamental differences. See the comments of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein in Judaism’s Encounter with Other Cultures: Rejection or Integration?, ed. Jacob…
The Nazir in New York
…see the remarks made by R. Aharon Lichtenstein in Shivhei Kol ha-Nevu’ah, printed in the back of Kol ha-Nevu’ah (Jerusalem, 2002) who describes the entire project of the Nazir as…
R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin, Kitniyot, R. Judah Mintz, and More
…R. Waxman’s approach is similar to that of R. Aharon Lichtenstein who also wrote a famous article on the topic, “Brother Daniel and the Jewish Fraternity,” republished in Leaves of…
The Alleged Blindness of R. Jacob Joshua Falk During the Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy
…(Altona, 1775), p. 22b; R. Yissachar Lichtenstein, אהל יששכר (Altona, 1826), letter of approbation by R. Michael May of Breslau; R. Abraham Ha-Levi, אברהם זכרון (Lvov, 1837), letter of approbation…
Book week 2023
…8. Rabbi Nochum Rabinowitz, Pathways to Their Hearts: Torah Perspectives on the Individual 9.Rabbi Twersky, Perpetuating the Masorah 10.Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, Values in Halakh 11. Rabbi Aviad Tabory, State of…
A Half Slave, Ber Oppenheimer, the Reliability of R’ Shlomo Sofer, and Other Comments
A Half Slave, Ber Oppenheimer, the Reliability of R’ Shlomo Sofer, and Other Comments By Brian Schwartz When I was in my early yeshiva years studying tractate Shabbos, I came across…
Book week 2017
…Contemporary Halakhic Problems, Volume VII, 524 pp. 5. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Halakhic Morality, Essays on Ethics and Masorah, 237 pp. 6. Rabbi Aron Lichtenstein, By his Light Character and…