Menachem Mendel

At the Talmud Blog, Amit Gvaryahu, whom I had the pleasure of meeting this past shabbat, gives a good overview of Menahem Kahana’s new edition of Sifre Bemidbar.

Posted on July 17th, 2011 under American Judaism, Manuscripts, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Talmud Study. Comments Off

On the Main Lane has a guest post about research using Talmud MSS. The post includes this bit of news about the Lieberman Institute of Talmud Research’s Database of Talmud MSS. A powerful resource for Talmudic research is now available freely on-line. The latest version of Eidei Nusah. This site contains the text of almost [...]

Posted on May 11th, 2011 under Manuscripts, Online resources, Talmud, Talmud Study. Comments: 1

Leshoneinu (72, 3) 261-286, has an article by Binyamin Elizur on the new edition of Seridei ha-Yerushalmi that is hopefully nearing its publication. Seridei ha-Yerushalmi [here] was published by Louis Ginzberg in 1909 and included texts from the Jerusalem Talmud that were found in the Cairo Geniza. The new edition of Seridei ha-Yerushalmi will include [...]

Posted on March 2nd, 2011 under Hebrew Printing, Manuscripts, Talmud, Talmud Study. Comments: 2

David Stern writes in the Forward about the recent sale of the Valmadonna Trust Library. Here is Stern’s description of when the library was on display at Sotheby’s. The exhibition was the closest one could ever come to seeing the entire Jewish people in its generations gathered in a single enclosed space. There is a [...]

Posted on December 21st, 2010 under Book Collecting, Hebrew Printing, Manuscripts. Comments Off

How should קולמוס be pronounced? See this discussion.

Posted on December 2nd, 2010 under Hebrew, Manuscripts, Mishnah. Comments Off

Great news from the JTS Library. Make sure that you read the fourth paragraph describing what is not included. ————————- As readers of News from The Library know, The Library’s efforts to make rare and unique parts of its collection available online began several years ago, and realized their first substantial success with the digitization [...]

Posted on November 11th, 2010 under Hebrew Printing, Manuscripts, Online resources. Comments Off

The Bodleian Library at Oxford has put one of the most important MS of the Mishneh Torah online. Huntington 80, an authorized copy of the MT, can now be viewed at this website. The site is very nice and they plan to put more of their Rambam related material online at a later date.

Posted on November 8th, 2010 under Jewish Law, Manuscripts, Middle Ages, Online resources, Rabbinic Literature. Comments: 1

Mercaz Zalman Shazar has published a collection of A.M. Haberman’s writings, edited by Avigdor Shinan. I haven’t been able to find any information about the contents of the book.

Posted on October 27th, 2010 under Bibliography, Book Collecting, Manuscripts, New Books. Comments: 1

At Parshablog R. Josh Waxman mentions a new ḥumrah against using maps. This ḥumrah is from a ḥassidisch school, so there’s no reason to think that this absurdity has gone beyond this school’s walls, and let’s hope that it doesn’t. Josh comments that I’d just point out that Mizrachi, the famous supercommentator of Rashi, includes [...]

Posted on September 26th, 2010 under Bible Studies, Hebrew Printing, Manuscripts. Comments: 2