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  A very large number of supercommentaries  have been composed on Rashi’s commentary on the Torah.  The author of the supercommnetaries  include Gedolei Yisrael who felt impelled to explain and […]

This year is the 200th anniversary of the death of the Gaon of Vilna. May we relate here a little known story about the Gaon. The same story is also […]

(Conclusion) Abrabanel wrote his commentary on Avot at the request of his son Shemuel. In the prologue to his introductions” – which is written in very flowery langauge — Abrabanel […]

(Continued from last week) Machon Yerushalayim’s edition of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch’s notes and novellae on the Mishna, the Tur and the Shulhan Arukh is introduced in a foreward by Rabbi […]

The Nussah of the Gaon of Vilna In the short foreword to Siddur Ezor Eliyahu we read: “The legacy of Rabbenu Eliyahu did not include a printed Siddur. Most of […]

He shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless movement with his hands. “What is there to write about me? What could I tell you? I am only a “poshute” (plain) […]

This is the fifth volume of the new edition of Maimondes’ Mishne Torah with fully voweled text English translation and commentary, pbulsihed by “Moznaim.” The first volume containing Hilkot beth […]

Scholars, rabbis and writers rubbed shoulders at a reception tendered this week in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Menahem, who have arrived from Israel for a short visit to […]

Four hundred youngsters participate each Sabbath at services a the Knesset Yisrael Synagogue  in Galata, the Jewish quarter in the center of Istanbul. Tow hundred boys and girls come to […]