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Breaching the Walls of History with Postscript

Breaching the Walls of History with Postscript

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This essay first appeared in the Jewish Review of Books (Spring 2026) and is republished here. Its postscript appeared in the magazine’s Substack newsletter, which you can subscribe to here. Last December, on the eighth day of Hanukkah, the American haredi newspaper of record Yated Ne’eman published a long, impassioned article titled “Ufortzu Chomos Migdolai Vetimu Kol Hashmanim,” by Rabbi Michoel Sorotzkin. The Hebrew title is from the fifth stanza of the famous Hanukkah standard Maoz tzur, which many of…

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Reading Over the Brisker Rav’s Shoulder

Reading Over the Brisker Rav’s Shoulder

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with a short postscript. Seforim Blog readers can get a 50% discount on a subscription to the Jewish Review of Books by using this link. Golden Ledgers by: Dan Rabinowitz To get to the Judaica Research Centre archives in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, you have to navigate through a series of passageways, across dark, empty rooms, and step over high thresholds. As your eyes adjust to the light, you are welcomed by rows of metal shelves filled…

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