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Buring the Hametz and the Goan Book
To the left are pictures what are supposed to be the Klausenberger Rebbe burning the book HaGaon (discussed here previously) with the Hametz. Additionally the final picture is him saying the Yehi...
View ArticleErrors in New Kuntras HaTeshuvot
As some have already noted, there is a completely new edition of Boaz Cohen's Kuntras HaTeshuvot. This edition edited by Shmuel Glick totally reworks Cohen's work. Supposedly this new work benefited...
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Hatikvah, Shir HaMa'alot, & Censorship
There is a rather interesting teshuva which appears in R. Avrohom Weinfeld's Lev Avrohom. In it he discusses whether one can recite Shir HaMa'alot to the tune of Hatikvah.He first explains that this...
View ArticleEruv Controversy and Website
There is an excellent site discussing various issues with eruvin, many of them contemporary (especially in light of the seforim which have been published on the topic in the last couple of years, many...
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"New" R. Reuven Margoliyot Book
Mossad HaRav Kook has published Peninem u-Margoliyot which is a collection of articles by R. Reuven Margoliyot. These articles originally appeared in the journal Sinai and are now republished in a...
View ArticleR. Reuven Margulies I
First, I want to post a bibliography of R. Margulies's works and then I shall discuss some biogrpahical details in the next post. This bibliography is not a scientific one in that I do not attempt to...
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R. Reuven Margulies II
I have already discussed the most recent book of R. Margulies and provided a bibliography of his works, I now want to turn to a brief biography of him.R. Margulies was born in 1889 and was known, from...
View ArticleThe Meshumad Hazzan
As some of you know I have an interest in meshumdim and their wide affect on modern day Judaism. Thus, Yehoshua Mondshine's latest installment in his series on corrupted stories is especially good....
View ArticleNote to Email subscribers
Those who subscribe via email, the prior service, bloglet, appears to be dead. I have now switched to feedblitz. If you have already subscribed you need not do anything you have been automatically...
View ArticleR. Y. Emden, Hassidim & the Vilna Shas
The Vilna edition of the Shas printed by the Romm Press has become the standard edition of the Shas. This Shas had many important additions and corrections that prior ones did not. One of those was...
View ArticleKuntress Ha-Teshuvot Review
I have previously briefly mentioned a couple of problems with the new work Kuntress Ha-Teshuvot haHadash, now I would like to give a full review. First, I am no expert in the teshuva literature, that...
View ArticleKehati Revision
Menachem Mendel has posted about a very interesting revision to the English Kehati edition of the Mishna.
View ArticleErrors in Seder Olam?
When one discusses the "Jewish" date of the world, the source used is the book Seder Olam. In fact, this is the source where we get to our counting of this being the 5766 year of the world. There was...
View ArticleAn Example of Women & Learning Removed from the Bavli?
There is what appears at first glance to be a technical passage (although some may find it of interest on its own) in the Talmud dealing with the issue of which types of impurity bars one from Torah...
View ArticleShavout Night and Coffee
There are many customs associated with Shavout, you can read about some here and here. One, is staying up all night and learning Torah (or at least part). This custom, which began in the 16th century...
View ArticleNew Feature - Listing of New Seforim
As a service for those who either don't have access or the time to browes the seforim stores to see what new has been printed I will now on a periodic basis list the seforim I have recently...
View ArticleOne more Book on Stam Yayin
I neglected to mention one other book that was just published. The book Dimyon Areyeh was originally printed in 1616 in Prague, this was the only edition until now. This book is addressed to those of...
View ArticleNames of Seforim I
The names utilized for Seforim are rather unique. As opposed to most cultures who title their books based upon their content (think Da Vinci Code about a code Da Vinci did), Jewish book titles, for...
View ArticleInverted Nuns
While Mississippi Fred recently discussed the missing nun (that is the Hebrew letter and not the people), last week we were treated to those Oh, Inverted World Nuns. Although, today this odd textual...
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R. Yechiel Heller and the Status of Non-Jews
Some have recently posted regarding the status of non-Jews vis-à-vis Jews. Although, they are more focused upon the medieval time period, I though it would be instructive to discuss a more...
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