The Late Rabbi Symcha Elberg’s Einei HaEda
Einei HaEda (The Eyes of the Community) is the name of the late Rabbi Symcha Elberg’s latest book, which appeared posthumously a short time ago. The Hebrew volume, carrying the […]
The Rothschild Miscellany
More than 20 years ago, I was asked by a charitable institution to write an article about a Haggadah illustration found in the famous Rothschild Miscellany. This was my first […]
Several Versions of a Story
R. Paysach J. Krohn relates in his Around the Maggid’s Table the following story, which he heard from R. Yissachar Frand of Baltimore. Two people had a violent argument about […]
Rosh Hashana with the Army of Israel (In the War of Liberation)
In the beginning of the autumn of 1948, much of the land which constituted the pre-Six Day War Jewish State was still in Arab hands. Part of Upper Galilee was […]
Different Versions of the Avodah
New Volume by Lev Sameah Institute The latest publication of the Lev Sameah Institute of Jerusalem – in time for the High Holidays – is a volume featuring a new […]
Shivchei Ha’ari
Shivchei Ha’ari is a well known book containing legends and stories regarding the life and activities of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, the great mysticist of sixteenth century Safed. Born in Jerusalem, Luria spent […]
Thanks to the Kaddish
The fast of the tenth of Tevet which occurs these days has been declared by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel as a day of reciting the Kaddish in memory of […]
At the Haffkine Institute in Bombay
In 1896 the bubonic plague broke out in Bombay. The Indian government asked Waldemar M. Haffkine to investigate the cause of the plague and to attempt to develop a vaccine […]
R. Moshe Chayim Luzatto’s Machzor
Passover was only a few weeks away. Jerusalemites were cleaning their homes for the festival. outside the houses, books which the owners wanted to dispose of, were piling up to […]
English Translation of Maimonides ‘Hilkhot Shabbat’
Moznaim Publishers of Jerusalem which, in the last few years, published various parts of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah in English translation recently published an additional volume – the 16th in the […]