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Emek ha-Netziv : The Manuscript
Emek ha-Netziv : The Manuscriptby Gil S. PerlRabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl is dean of the Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South in Memphis. The following selection comes from his new book,...
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Concerning the Zohar and Other Matters
Concerning the Zohar and Other MattersMarc B. Shapiro1. In the last issue of Milin Havivin I published an article dealing with the Zohar and the supposed obligation to accept that it was written by R....
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The Book of Disputes between East and West
The Book of Disputes between East and West or A Treasury of Alternate Customs from the Land of Israel and from Babylon Translated and Annotated by Leor Jacobi Based primarily on the Margulies...
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Introduction to The Song of Songs (An Excerpt)by Amos HakhamTranslated by David S. ZinbergAmos Hakham passed away on August 2, 2012 at the age of 91. The following is an unofficial translation of an...
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What’s Wrong With Wealth and Honor?
What’s Wrong With Wealth and Honor? by Eli Genauer Below, we will present some timely notes regarding an English/Hebrew Machzor for...
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On some new seforim, Copernicus, saying Ledovid , Moses Mendelssohn and other...
On some new seforim, Copernicus, saying Ledovid , Moses Mendelssohn and other random commentsBy Eliezer BrodtHere is a list of recent seforim and books I have seen around in the past few months. This...
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Who is Buried in the Vilna Gaon’s Tomb? A Contribution Toward the...
Who is Buried in the Vilna Gaon’s Tomb?A Contribution Toward the Identification of the Authentic Grave of the Vilna Gaonby Shnayer Z. Leiman1. Prologue This essay attempts to identify the...
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View ArticleA selection from Strictly Kosher Reading by Yoel Finkelman
The Seforim Blog is happy to present this selection from Yoel Finkelman’s recent book, Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy.CoalescenceThe first...
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Wine Strength and Dilution
Wine Strength and Dilutionby Isaiah CoxJune 2009Isaiah Cox trained as an historian at Princeton, and conducted postgraduate work in medieval history at King's College London. He is also a technologist,...
View ArticleRashbam the Talmudist, Reconsidered
Rashbam the Talmudist, Reconsideredby David S. Farkas*AbstractRashbam (Rabbi Samuel ben Meir of Troyes) is known today primarily for his Biblical commentary, which is often seen as a forerunner to...
View ArticleBlazing Critics
Recently, the question of how critical a reviewer should be was raised by Pete Wells' review of Guy Fieri's Times Square restaurant. In that review, Wells eviscerates everything about the restaurant....
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German Orthodoxy, Hakirah, and More
German Orthodoxy, Hakirah, and More Marc B. Shapiro1. I recently published a translation of Hirsch’s famous lecture on Schiller. You can see it here.At first I thought that this lecture remained...
View ArticleMidrashic Exegesis and Biblical Interpretation in the Meshekh Hokhmah
Midrashic Exegesis and Biblical Interpretation in the Meshekh Hokhmah by Yitshak CohenIn honor of Yitshak Cohen’s just-published book, “Or Sameah” Halakhah u-Mishpat: Mishnato...
View ArticleA Letter from R. Nathan Kamenetsky
A Letter from R. Nathan KamenetskyIn response to my last post on the Seforim Blog, R. Nathan Kamenetsky sent me a long e-mail. Because of its value to those with an interest in the Lithuanian Torah...
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New seforim and booksBy Eliezer BrodtHere is a list of seforim and books I have seen around in the past few months. This is not an attempt to list everything or even close to it; rather it's just a...
View ArticleWinter book sale 2013
Winter book sale 2013By Eliezer BrodtThis list consists of two parts. Part one is composed of seforim and books [two parts] which I came across while hunting for seforim. Most of these titles are very...
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Hakirah, Metzitzah, and More
Hakirah, Metzitzah, and MoreMarc B. ShapiroHakirah has performed a valuable service in dealing forthrightly with the matter of homosexuality. Issue no. 13 (2012) contains R. Chaim Rapoport’s “Judaism...
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Quiz Runoffby Marc B. ShapiroWritten on 4 Shevat, 5773, the yahrzeit of R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg1. In the last post, as the quiz question, I asked for the name of the first Hebrew book published by a...
View ArticleA Review of “Alo Na'aleh”
A Review of “Alo Na'aleh”הרב מרדכי ציון, 'עלה נעלה: מענה לספר ויואל משה, תשובות מפי הרה"ג שלמה אבינר שליט"א', בית אל תשע"ב, 278 עמודיםBy Ezra BrandThe opinion of R' Yoel Teitelbaum, better known as the...
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