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Marc B. Shapiro - Rabbis and Communism
Rabbis and Communism By Marc B. Shapiro I had intended my newest post to be on the Rav’s famous essay “Confrontation,” but I recently received the latest issue of Tradition with Rabbi Yitzchak Blau’s...
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A Puzzling Example of Plagiarism
One of the strange facts connected with plagiarism is that, at times, it is hard to discern what the motivation is to plagiarize. For example, we have seen a person today that continuously plagiarizes...
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Marc B. Shapiro - Responses to Comments and Elaborations on Previous Posts II
Responses to Comments and Elaborations of Previous Posts IIby Marc B. ShapiroIn a previous post I wrote as follows:In Kitvei Ramban, vol. 1, p. 413, Chavel prints the introduction to Milhamot ha-Shem....
View ArticleInitial Bibliography of Important Haggadah Literature
Initial Bibliography of Important Haggadah Literatureby Eliezer BrodtAll are aware of the proliferation of Haggadahs. Every year more and more are published thus making it difficult to know which...
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Hunted Bears, Cantonists and Nazi Victims
by Yitzhak, בין דין לדין.I thank Dan Rabinowitz for graciously allowing me to post this essay.Hunted BearsThis is the cover image of the Gary Larson collection Beyond The Far Side:I have long found...
View ArticleSale On Hebrew Book Harddrives
This year the sale will be 33% off the regular price of Otzar HaChomah. The sale runs from May 13 through June 7. The prices are as follows:Full version (25,800 vol.) reg. 2275 sale 1520Bnei Torah...
View ArticleLag Ba-Omer and Upsherins in Recent Jewish literature: Revisionist History...
Lag Ba-Omer and Upsherins in Recent Jewish literature:Revisionist History and Borrowing and PlagiarismBy Eliezer BrodtIn this post I would like to touch upon some of the topics relating to Lag Ba-Omer...
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Shavuah ha-Sefer 2008: A Recommended Reading List
Shavuah ha-Sefer 2008: A Recommended Reading List by Eliezer Brodt Book week just began in Eretz Yisroel. As I wrote last year Every year in Israel, around Shavous time, there is a period of about ten...
View ArticleSEFORIM HARD DRIVES SALES UPDATE etc.
SEFORIM HARD DRIVES SALES UPDATE etc.The Otzrot HaTorah (AKA "The Morgenstern Library") is now ON SALE thru June 30.The library contains 13,000 volumes in the "regular" version and 14,000 volumes in...
View ArticleAryeh A. Frimer Review of Daniel Sperber’s Darka shel Halakha
Lo Zu haDerekh: A Review ofRabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber’s Darka shel Halakha by Aryeh A. FrimerRabbi Prof. Aryeh A. Frimer is the Ethel and David Resnick Professor of Active Oxygen Chemistry at Bar Ilan...
View ArticleA Note Regarding the Recitation of Brikh Shemei
A Note Regarding the Recitation of Brikh Shemeiby Rabbi Yechiel GoldhaberRabbi Yehiel Goldhaber of Jerusalem is the author of the (currently) two-volume authoritative work on the customs of the...
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There are two upcoming auctions. The first, Kestenbaum & Co. will take place this Thursday, June 26th, the catalog is available on their website. The auction includes R. S.R. Hirsch's copy of the...
View ArticleImportant Announcement
Dear Seforim Blog Readers,It is with great pleasure that we announce today that Tradition Online (TraditionOnline.org) will be adopting the Seforim blog onto its website.We believe that the Seforim...
View ArticleSpecial Subscription Offer to Tradition
In honor of the adoption of TraditionOnline Seforim Blog, Tradition Online is offering, for a limited time only, a reduced price of $15 for a 1-year, online-only subscription to Tradition. This will...
View ArticleForgetfulness & Other Human Errors a New Monograph by Marc Shapiro
As a religion based on tradition, Judaism places great stock in the words and opinions of its early Sages. This is so to the extent that there is great debate as to whether it is even possible that...
View ArticleBitul ha-Tamid: the History and Application
Bitul ha-Tamid and Edgar Allan Poe* The Mishna in Tannit records that 5 bad events occurred on the 17th of Tamuz, one being the cessation of the daily sacrifice, the tamid. The Talmud Bavli offers the...
View ArticleMeir Hildesheimer - Historical Perspectives on Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
On the recent occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), Dr. Meir Hildesheimer of The Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Cathedra for the Research of...
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More on Ma'adanei Eretz on Shevi'it By Yitzchak Jakobovitz Between the 'Inner Family Circle' and the Published Word a) In a recent post on the Seforim Blog, Rabbi Chaim Rapoport spoke of the extent to...
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The popular press, in this case Newsweek, does not always get Jewish practices correct. Newsweek just published a short piece on Jewish drinking and specifically mention "Kiddush clubs." While the...
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Some Literary, Scholarly & Halachic Perspectives on Medieval Ashkenazi Attitudes Toward Martyrdomby Yitzhak of בין דין לדין Prose George Eliot, in Daniel Deronda, depicts the ineffable, exquisite...
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