The Story of the Publisher of the Forged Yerushalmi Kodshim
Most are aware of the famous forgery perpetrated by Shlomo Yehuda Friedlaender at the beginning of the 20th century - the Yerushalmi on Seder Kodshim. (For background see here). Recently, R. Baruch...
View ArticleMarc B. Shapiro: Obituary for Prof. Mordechai Breuer zt"l
Obituary: Professor Mordechai Breuer zt”lBy Marc B. Shapiro Professsor Mordechai Breuer passed away on the twelfth of Sivan, 5767. It is a great loss for the world of Jewish scholarship as well as...
View ArticleShavuah HaSefer: A Recommended Reading List
Shavuah HaSefer: A Recommended Reading List by Eliezer Brodt Every year in Israel, around Shavous time, there is a period of around ten days called Shavuah Hasefer-book week. Shavuah HaSefer is a sale...
View ArticleReview - New Volume of Peskei Teshuvos on Mishna Berurah
Over the centuries, throughout our rich history, every time there has been a codification of halacha of any sorts there has been some opposition; the examples abound - the Rif who was opposed by the...
View ArticleTwo News Items
First, the sale on the Seforim Hard Drives has been extended until June 22 for the Otzar haChomah and the 25th for the Morgenstern hard drive. Second, a new issue of Ohr Yisrael has just come out and...
View ArticleDaniel Sperber's New Book - "The Path of Halakha"
As was noted in a prior post, Prof. Daniel Sperber has published another book - Darkah shel Halakha Kiryat Nashim b'Torah. As the title implies the main focus of the book is to discuss the...
View ArticleWill The Real First American Jews Please Stand Up?: A Review of Machon...
In the history of Jews on the American continent, many are unaware that the first Jewish settlement in the Americas was not in North America, but instead South America. Specifically, the Brazilian...
View ArticleNew Volume of Rav Ovadiah Yosef's "Hazon Ovadiah," on the halakhot of the...
New Volume of Rav Ovadiah Yosef's "Hazon Ovadiah:"On the halakhot of the Four Fasts, the Three Weeks,Nine Days, Tisha B’Av, and Zekher le-Hurbanby Eliezer BrodtA new sefer just reached the seforim...
View ArticleThe Other Works of R. Yehiel Mihel Epstein, Author of the Arukh HaShulhan
A Review of: Kitvei Ha'Arukh HaShulhanEliezer BrodtAlmost every Friday morning, I get a call from a fellow seforim addict asking me what's new on the market. The past few weeks, he had been...
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Printing of the Arukh HaShulhan: The Missing Line About Rabbi Epstein's Daughter
In the prior post, R. Brodt discussed the new work of R. Yechiel Michal Epstein. R. Epstein is most famous for his Arukh HaShulhan a comprehensive halakhic work. Although the work itself is very...
View ArticleRabbi Michael J. Broyde on "The Missing Sections of the Arukh HaShulhan: The...
As a followup to the two recent posts at the Seforim blog -- see here ("The Other Works of R. Yehiel Mihel Epstein, Author of the Arukh HaShulhan") and here ("Printing of the Arukh HaShulhan: The...
View Articlegod or God: A Review of Two Works on the Names of God
god or God: A Review of Two Works on the Names of GodEliezer BrodtLast week I picked up a new sefer titled Nekadesh es Shimcha. What caught my attention was that it included not only Nekadesh es...
View ArticleCritique of the Oz VeHadar Edition of the Arukh HaShulhan
In some of the recent posts we have discussed various new publications of Rabbi Yehiel Mihel Epstein, author of Arukh HaShulhan.Recently, Makhon Oz VeHadar reprinted the Arukh HaShulhan, and that...
View ArticleMarc B. Shapiro -- Response to Rabbi Zev Leff
Response to Rabbi Zev Leffby Marc B. ShapiroRabbi Zev Leff (of Moshav Matityahu) reviewed my book, The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen Principles Reappraised, in the most recent...
View ArticleRabbi Chaim Rapoport on Prof. Marc B. Shapiro and Rabbi Zev Leff
In response to Prof. Marc B. Shapiro's recent response to Rabbi Zev Leff (see original review), Rabbi Chaim Rapoport has submitted the following letter exclusively posted at the Seforim blog. בס"ד....
View ArticleProf. Marc B. Shapiro response to Rabbi Chaim Rapoport
In response to Rabbi Chaim Rapoport's recent response to Prof. Marc B. Shapiro's response to Rabbi Zev Leff (see original review), Prof. Marc B. Shapiro has shared with the Seforim blog his original...
View ArticleRabbi Yehuda Henkin -- Opposite of Plagiarism
Rabbi Yehuda Henkin is the author of Shu"T Bnei Banim in four volumes and the commentary Chibah Yeteirah on the Torah. He learned privately with his grandfather, Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, and served...
View ArticleNo more Bentchers: A Review of a Sefer Given as a Wedding Gift
No more Bentchers: A Review of a Sefer Given as a Wedding Giftby Eliezer BrodtA wedding carries with it many customs, one of which is an attempt to use this ceremony to disseminate Torah. There was an...
View ArticleS.Z. Havlin - Additional Notes on the New Encyclopeadia Judaica
הערות על אנ"ימאת: ש"ז הבליןהרב הנקין הזכיר מכשול בערך מערכי האנצ"י, ואולי ראו להוסיף, כי אכן נכון הדבר, ואף הרב הנקין שליט"א בעצמו, נכשל בעבר בהסתמכו על מידע שלקח מאצ"י. באחת מחוברות 'קושט', עלון רבני...
View ArticleIggeres Ha'Mussar: The Ethical Will of a Bibliophile
Iggeres Ha'Mussar: The Ethical Will of a Bibliophileby Eliezer BrodtA few days ago, the sefer Iggeres Ha'mussar from R. Yehudah Ibn Tibbon, was reprinted. What follows is a short review of this...
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