Mad magazine and Peanuts – moralists for today?
Mad magazine and Peanuts – moralists for today?By Dov Silberman*With all the messianic overtones that the Jewish people are regaled with over Tishrei, one beloved by Chassidim is the Zohar's view (I,...
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"A man enters synagogue on Yom Kippur with his dog and tells the gabbai this is a very smart dog, he can talk. "If he will talk for you," says the man, "will you let him sit next to me?" The gabbai...
View ArticleChaim Rapoport - From Ma’adanei Eretz to Kitvei Ma’adanei Eretz...
From Ma’adanei Eretz to Kitvei Ma’adanei Eretz (5704-5767)Rabbi Chaim Rapoport (London, England)As Rabbi Eliezer Brodt has recently noted in a post at the Seforim blog the advent of the sabbatical...
View ArticleModena, Gilgul, and an Unpublished Letter
Someone in a comment to a recent post mentioned an article that appears in the latest issue of the journal Ets Hayyim. This journal is published by the “students and hassidim of Bobov.” [Supposedly...
View ArticleTowards A Reappraisal of the Recent Works of Rabbi Shelomoh Luriah (Maharshal)
Towards A Reappraisal of the Recent WorksOf Rabbi Shelomoh Luriah (Maharshal)By Rabbi Eliezer BrodtAs previously mentioned on the Seforim blog by myself and others, our generation is privileged to...
View ArticlePart Five of the "The Eruv in St. Louis"
As previously noted at the Seforim blog, Eruv Online has an excellent series on the history of eruvin controversies. In his most recent offering, he has posted the fifth segment of "History of City...
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Marc B. Shapiro - Forgery and the Halakhic Process, part 2
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Scranton. He is the author of Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy:...
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Marc B. Shapiro - Responses to Comments and Elaborations on Previous Posts
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Scranton. He is a frequent contributor to the Seforim blog and his most recent...
View ArticleR. Yehuda Hachasid & Natural Phenomenon: A Review of Amaros Tehoros
R. Yehuda Hachasid & Natural Phenomenon: A Review of Amaros Tehorosby: Eliezer BrodtIn Kovetz al Yad (new series), volume 12, Professor Y. Ta-Shma published, for the first time from manuscript, a...
View ArticleMenachem Kellner - Who is the Person Whom Rambam Says Can be...
Who is the Person Whom Rambam Says Can be‘Consecrated as the Holy of Holies’?By Menachem Kellner Menachem Kellner is Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa. Author of several dozen...
View ArticleAryeh Leibowitz - Response to Professor Menachem Kellner
Response to Professor Menachem KellnerBy Aryeh LeibowitzTo the editors of the Seforim blog:In Professor Menachem Kellner’s spirited and scholarly post ("Who is the Person Whom Rambam Says Can be...
View ArticleJQR Forum in honor of 25th anniversary of Prof. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's...
In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Professor Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory, the Jewish Quarterly Review published a special forum with...
View ArticleRabbi Chaim Rapoport on the Contemporary 'Tribe of Levi' in...
In response to Professor Menachem Kellner's thoughtful post at the Seforim blog regarding Rabbi Aryeh Leibowitz's recent article in the latest issue of Tradition and subsequent response at the Seforim...
View ArticleWhere's Shai Agnon Revisited
You may recall that in a prior post we noted that in the Reinetz edition of the Pirush Ba'al HaTurim al HaTorah is a victim of censorship. Specifically, Reinetz quotes a story about how quickly the...
View ArticleA Review of Beis Havaad by Eliezer Brodt
Beis Havaad, Le'arechat Kitvei Rabboseinu, ed. Yoel Hakoton and Eliyahu Soloveitchik, (Jerusalem, 2003); 272 pp. Beis Havaad is a collection of articles based on a series of lectures that were...
View ArticleReview of Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot He-Hadash
Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot He-Hadash, A Bibliographic Thesaurus of Responsa Literature published from ca. 1470-2000, ed. Shmuel Glick, vol. II, Jerusalem & Ramat-Gan, 2007, [4], 11, 483, [4].I have...
View ArticleDaniel J. Lasker - "December 6 Is Coming: Get Out the Umbrellas"
December 6 Is Coming: Get Out the UmbrellasBy Daniel J. LaskerDaniel J. Lasker is Norbert Blechner Professor of Jewish Values at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, and is chair of the...
View ArticleMitzvat Ner Ish uBeto: When A Revised Edition is Not Revised:
What follows is a guest post discussing a "revised" edition of the sefer Mitzvat Ner Ish uBeto, a work devoted to the laws and customs of Chanukah. For an earlier post on Chanukah see here, here, and...
View ArticleThe Customs Associated with Joy on Chanukah and Their More Obscure Sources
The Customs Associated with Joy on Chanukah and Their More Obscure Sourcesby: Eliezer BrodtIn previous posts we have discussed some of the customs relating to Chanukah, in this post I wanted to...
View Articlethe Michtavim blog, an affiliate of the Seforim blog
In addition to my work that will continue at the Seforim blog -- we've got some great posts going up soon -- I have recently started a new blog, the Michtavim blog, an affiliate of the Seforim blog,...
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