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Some Highlights of the Mossad HaRav Kook Sale of 2017
Some Highlights of the Mossad HaRav Kook Sale of 2017By Eliezer BrodtFor over thirty years, starting on Isru Chag of Pesach, Mossad HaRav Kook publishing house has made a big sale on all of their...
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The 1908 Student Strike at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary: A Newly...
The 1908 Student Strike at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary: A Newly Discovered DocumentBy Eli GenauerI would like to thank Dr Zev Eleff for his invaluable assistance in helping me frame this...
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Lag B’Omer through the eyes of a Litvak in 1925
Lag B’Omer through the eyes of a Litvak in 1925[*]By Shimon SzimonowitzDov Mayani (1903-1952)A Static and Evolving ChagLag B’Omer has infiltrated Jewish culture as a bona fide holiday. While the day is...
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On Touching Clothing before Washing Hands in the MorningChaim SunitskyIn this short article I want to examine the source for the statement in Shulchan Aruch Harav (Orach Chaim 1:7) that according to...
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The Power of Tefilah during Aseret Yemei TeshuvahBy Eliezer BrodtThe following is a chapter from my sefer Ben Kesseh Le’assur [still available for purchase, for more information contact me at...
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ביאור שי'הגר"א ביחס למנהג העמדת אילנות כו'בחג השבועות*איסר זלמן ווייסברג, לייקוואודאיתא בשו"ע אורח חיים (תצד, ג)ברמ"א:ונוהגין לשטוח עשבים בשבועות בבית הכנסת והבתים זכר לשמחתמתן תורה.לשון הרמ"א צ"ב,...
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Translations of Rabbi Judah Halevi’s Kuzariby 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...
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Book week 2017By Eliezer BrodtBook week just began in Eretz Yisrael. As I have written the past ten years, every year in Israel, around Shavous time, there is a period of about ten days called Shavuah...
View ArticleInteresting Legacy Judaica Auction lots
Legacy Judaica is holding an auction on June 13, 2017, and we wanted to highlight a few items of interest (for our previous post regarding the auction house and previous auctions see here. There are,...
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Book week & The International Book Fair 2017 Updated By Eliezer BrodtBook week just began in Eretz Yisrael. As I have written the past ten years, every year in Israel, around Shavous time, there...
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A Half Slave, Ber Oppenheimer, the Reliability of R’ Shlomo Sofer, and Other...
A Half Slave, Ber Oppenheimer, the Reliability of R’ Shlomo Sofer, and Other CommentsBy Brian SchwartzWhen I was in my early yeshiva years studying tractate Shabbos, I came across a Rashba which I...
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Zvi Hirsch Masliansky: Memoirs from the Hebrew Periodical Ha-Doar By Zviah NardiIntroduction.Zvi Hirsch Masliansky, known as “The National Preacher” (1856-l943), was a member of the Hibbat Zion...
View ArticleThe 93 Beit Yaakov Martyrs: A Modern Midrash
The 93 Beit Yaakov Martyrs: A Modern MidrashBy Rabbi Ari KahnOn January 8, 1943 an article appeared in The New York Times which the fate of 93 young women[1] who took their own lives rather than serve...
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New book announcement: Yeshurun volume 36
New book announcement: Yeshurun volume 36By Eliezer BrodtThis past Wednesday the thirty sixth volume of the Torah journal Yeshurun was released. As I am on the editorial board of this journal, I...
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R’ Aron Zelig Halevi EpsteinZtz"lBy Eliezer BrodtOn יג מנחם אב תשס"ט I and thousands of others suffered a great loss. Our great Rosh Yeshivah, R’ Aron Zelig Halevi Epstein of Yeshiva Shar Hatorah, was...
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Some New books
Some New booksBy Eliezer BrodtThis week is the Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies at the Mount Scopus Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Here is a link to all the lectures that are...
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Review of My Father’s Journey by Sara Reguer
Review of My Father’s Journey by Sara Reguer (Academic Studies Press, 2015)By Moshe MaimonAbout a year ago, Seforim Blog readers were informed by Prof. Marc Shapiro of the publication of Sara Reguer’s...
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The Babylonian Geonim's Attitude to the Talmudic Text
The Attitude of the Babylonian Geonim to the Talmudic textBy Dr. Uzy Fuchs A few weeks ago we mentioned herethat the Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies took place at the Mount Scopus Campus...
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A Final Note Regarding Rav Simcha Zelig Reguer’s Position on Opening a...
A Final Note Regarding Rav Simcha Zelig Reguer’s Position on Opening a Refrigerator on Shabbat By Yaacov SassonThe purpose of this note is to establish conclusively that Rav Simcha Zelig Reguer, the...
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There is No Bracha on an Eclipse
There is No Bracha on an EclipseBy Rabbi Michael J. BroydeRabbi Michael Broyde is a law professor at Emory University School of Law and the Projects Director in its Center for the Study of Law and...
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