The Late Rabbi Shilo Raphael Z”L (10th Yahrzeit)
Several weeks ago, on the 3rd of Kislev, we commemorated the tenth anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shilo Raphael, who had served as head of a Jerusalem rabbinical court […]
The Late Rabbi Shilo Raphael, Z”L (1994)
Rabbi Shilo Raphael, Av Beth Din of the Jerusalem Rabbinical District Court, died on the 3rd of Kislev (6th of November) at the young age of 54. He was buried […]
A. Surasky’s New Book on “Pirkei Avot”
The reading of Pirkei Avot on Sabbath is an old custom. It goes back to the period of the Geonim and may even predate it. The custom varies in different […]
The Sale of Sassoon Manuscripts
On May 12, [1981] important Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts from the famous collection of David Sassoon were auctioned off in Sotheby Parke Bernet on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. […]
A Reproduction of a Rare Warsaw Haggadah
For years now, the New York Office of the Diskin Orphan Home of Israel- the country’s best known educational institution for orphans, children from broken homes and poor families, as […]
Nuremberg
I was privileged to see Nuremberg in ruins. In 1947 I travelled with a friend from Brussels to Prague. The train stopped for a short time in Nuremberg. We got […]
The Order of Zemanim
On the Sabbath following Passover we started reciting Pirket Avot (The Ethics of the Fathers). Each Sabbath one chapter is said. Sefaradim, who recite Avot only until the Sabbath before […]
Ohel Hayim, The Lehmann Bible Manuscripts
Dr. Manfred Lehmann wears many hats. He is a successful businessman, a world traveler, a philanthropist, a bibliophile, a scholar and a publicist. He is not only good at business, […]
The Gaon Rabbi Jacob Pollack
Since we are now in the period of counting the Omer, the following excerpt is of particular relevance. The Gaon Rabbi Isaiah b. Abraham HaLevi Horowitz writes in his Shnei […]
Little Known Works By or About Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
I have been following for years the public sales of “Judaic Jerusalem.” Abraham Israel Frohlich, the director of the firm has discovered many an unknown or little known Jewish book […]