Book announcement: Ta’aroch Lifonai Shulchan by Rabbi Eitam Henkin, H”YD
Book announcement: Ta’aroch Lifonai Shulchan by Rabbi Eitam Henkin H”YD By Eliezer Brodt הרב איתם שמעון הנקין הי”ד, “תערך לפני שלחן: חייו, זמנו, ומפעלו של הרי”ם עפשטיין בעל ערוך השלחן,” הוצאת קורן 413...
View ArticleHighlights of the Mossad HaRav Kook Sale of 2019, New Rabbi Tovia Preschel...
Highlights of the Mossad HaRav Kook Sale of 2019, New Rabbi Tovia Preshel volumes & Beis Havaad Convention By Eliezer Brodt For over thirty years, beginning on Isru Chag of Pesach, Mossad HaRav...
View ArticleRabbi Joseph Hertz, Women and Mitzvot, Antoninus, the New RCA Siddur, and...
Rabbi Joseph Hertz, Women and Mitzvot, Antoninus, the New RCA Siddur, and Rabbis who Apostatized, Part 1 Marc B. Shapiro 1. In my last post here, in discussing R. Joseph Hertz’s suggested alternative...
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Three new Books By Eliezer Brodt In this post I would like to briefly describe three new works, which are hot off the press. For a short time, copies of these three works can be purchased through me...
View ArticleMessage from Professor Haym Soloveitchik
In the newly-published issue of the Jewish Quartlerly Review (Spring 109:2), there is an exchange between Robert Brody and Haym Soloveitchik on the “Third Yeshivah of Bavel”...
View ArticleSpecial book offer: Besamim Rosh
Special book offer: Besamim Rosh By Eliezer Brodt One of the most famous forgeries in Jewish literature is the Shu”t Besamim Rosh. This work was brought to print by Saul Berlin in 1793. Shortly after...
View ArticleThe Haftarot for Behar and Behukkotai
The Haftarot for Behar and Behukkotai[1] By Eli Duker The old Babylonian practice was to read Jeremiah 16:19 as the haftara for Parashat Behar and Ezekiel 34 for Parashat Behukkotai, and this is...
View ArticleReflecting on When the Arukh haShulhan on Orach Chaim was Actually Written
Reflecting on When the Arukh haShulhan on Orach Chaim was Actually Written: Citations of the Mishnah Berurah in the Arukh haShulhan Michael J. Broyde & Shlomo C. Pill Rabbi Michael Broyde is a...
View ArticleTowards a Bibliography of seforim related to Shavuos and Megilas Rus (both...
Towards a Bibliography of seforim related to Shavuos and Megilas Rus (both new and old) By Eliezer Brodt Originally written May 24, 2012 -Updated June 3, 2019 In this post I intend to start a list...
View ArticleThe Religious-Zionist Manifesto of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Don Yahya
The Religious-Zionist Manifesto of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Don Yahya by Bezalel Naor In 1901 there appeared in Vilna a 32-page booklet entitled, Ha-Tsiyoniyut mi-nekudat hashkafat ha-dat (Zionism from the...
View ArticleBook Week 2019
Book Week 2019 By Eliezer Brodt Book week just began in Eretz Yisrael. Continuing with my now thirteenth year tradition, every year in Israel, around Shavuos time, there is a period of about ten days...
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Book Sale 2019 Eliezer Brodt This Book list of over three hundred and fifty titles, consists of a few sections. I have attempted to put them in some sort of categories to make it easier to use. Most of...
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Just a reminder that the sale from this post is active for another two days (through June 27).… Read More...
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Rav Aryeh Tzvi Frommer HY”D: סנגורם של ישראל
Rav Aryeh Tzvi Frommer HY”D: סנגורם של ישראל A Closer Look At One of the Greatest Defenders of the Common Jew in Modern Times[1] Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Chochmei Lublin, Av Beit Din of Kozoglov,...
View ArticleTowards Decoding Ha-Yeriah Ha-Gedolah (The Great Parchment), A Cryptic 14th...
Towards Decoding Ha-Yeriah Ha-Gedolah (The Great Parchment), A Cryptic 14th Century Italian Kabbalistic Text By Ezra Brand Ezra Brand is an independent researcher based in NYC. He has an MA from Revel...
View ArticleOn the Times Commonly Presented for Birkat HaL’vana, Part 3
On the Times Commonly Presented for Birkat HaL’vana, Part 3 By Avi Grossman Some time ago, my first article appeared on the Seforim Blog (link). It felt good to join the club. In the comments section,...
View ArticleDon’t Oppress the Ger
Don’t Oppress the Ger Ben Zion Katz The Torah in Motion blog by Rabbi Jay Kelman[1] discusses the daily daf as well as the parashah of the week. When reviewing Baba Metzia 59, Rabbi Kelman mentioned...
View ArticleThe Anonymous Author of Tikkunei Zohar and Ra‘ya Mehemna: An Antinomian or a...
The Anonymous Author of Tikkunei Zohar and Ra‘ya Mehemna: An Antinomian or a Radical Maimonidean? By Bezalel Naor Today, it is an accepted fact in scholarly circles that Tikkunei Zohar and Ra‘ya...
View ArticleReply from Haym Soloveitchik to the JQR Interview with Robert Brody
Reply from Haym Soloveitchik to the JQR Interview with Robert Brody By Haym Soloveitchik Editor’s Note: As a recap of a recent exchange between two scholars on a nuanced debate within medieval Jewish...
View ArticleAntoninus, R. Moses Kunitz, and Iggerot Malkhei Rabbanan
Antoninus, R. Moses Kunitz, and Iggerot Malkhei Rabbanan [1] Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here Returning to our discussion of Antoninus, we now come to a figure we have often dealt with in previous...
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