Maimonides’ Medical Writings
An Arab poet sang in praise of Maimonides’ art of healing: Galen’s heart heals only the body, but Abu-Amram’s (Maimonides’) the body and soul. Mosad HaRav Kook recently reprinted Dr. […]
They Wore Sackcloth (Marking the Three Weeks)
Two great rabbinic luminaries wore sackcloth under their garments as a sign of mourning for the destruction of the Temple and the Galuth of the Divine Glory. Not only one […]
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 […]
Rabbi Yehoshua Hutner, Director of Yad Harav Herzog
Friday, June 2, 1967, six o’clock in the morning the Israel radio announced that a new national government composed of the major parties had been established. The news was received […]
Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin
For more than thirty-five years the name of Rabbi Y.E. Henkin has been synonymous with that of “Ezras Torah.” The Ezras Torah Fund was established in 1915 for the purpose […]
The Sekulener Rav
“Rebbe, do you recognize me?” asked a young man. He had come especially to Bnei Brak to greet his benefactor who had arrived for a visit in Israel. “I was […]
Rabbi Abraham Farbstein
After the death of Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, the great editor-in-chief of the Talmudic Encyclopedia, changes were made in the composition of the editorial board. Rabbi Yona Merzbach, who had […]
Saul Lieberman On the Occasion of his 75th Birthday
In the spring of 1970, a team of archeologists uncovered at En-Gedi the mosaic pavement of a synagogue from the Byzantine period. The reading of the inscription in the […]