Rabbi E.E. Dessler’s Novellae on the Talmud
“The publication of this volume makes it evident to all that its author was not only a brilliant exponent of the Mussar movement, but was equally outstanding in the exposition […]
The Rabbi Abramsky Memorial Volume
Last week was the third anniversary of the death of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky, one of the rabbinic luminaries of our generation. Rabbi Abramsky studed at Telz and other Yeshivas and […]
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 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 […]
The Sage of Leipzig (Rabbi Simon Hurwitz)
The Sage of Leipzig is the title of a new Hebrew English book about the life and writings of Rabbi Simon Hurwitz. The name Simon Hurwitz might not mean much […]
Yad David- Novellae on the Talmud by Rabbi Joseph David Sinzheim
A new volume of Yad David, novellae on the Talmud by Rabbi Joseph David Sinzheim, came off the press in Jerusalem some time ago. Rabbi Sinzheim was, in his time, […]
The Hillula of Rabbi Moshe Isserles (Lag Ba’Omer in Cracow)
Rabbi Moshe Isserles, the great codifier, author of additions to Rabbi Yosef Caro’s Shulchan Aruch, reflecting the laws and customs of Ashkenazi Jewry, lived and taught in Cracow, where he […]