In Aseih Lechah Rav, vol. 7, p. 174 Rabbi Hayyim David Halevy included a letter that he wrote to Rabbi Efraim Greenblatt, the author of Rivevot Efraim. In his letter, Rabbi Halevy defends himself against Rabbi Greenblatt’s complaint that he doesn’t seem to examine the literature of the Aharonim. Here are the comments [...]
H-Levant has published a review of Matthias B. Lehmann’s Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture. Below are some excerpts.
Beginning in the eighteenth century, a number of Ottoman rabbis had undertaken the task of fighting the ignorance they believed was plaguing their communities by producing works of Jewish ethics (musar) in Judeo-Spanish (also known [...]
Nathaniel Helfgot has posted at Text and Texture on Women, Communal Leadership, and Modern Orthodoxy. Many people who oppose women in positions of communal leadership cite a statement of the Rambam in Hilkhot Melakhim 1:5. Helfgot’s comments on the reception of this Rambam are worth quoting.
In this context, I would also add a [...]
Part I, Part II.
Of course everyone is asking about your wife, your children.
“My wife is not so enthusiastic about my newest excitement, despite that she understands and to some extent identifies with what lies behind it. She is the daughter of a rabbi (Rabbi Binyamin Herlberg, who was killed on Har Eival) and cames [...]
Jewish Family Law, the Agunah and General Issues in Jewish Law
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I am not sure if this is old and I just never noticed it, but the JNUL seems to have a new web page which has links to many of the important MSS and early printed editions that they have on their website in one place.
It seems that Otzar ha-Hochma knows no rest. It was apparently a typo. See here for a previous round of criticism.
See here for part I.
In the literature of the Geonic period one finds sources which discuss the two central questions which the Talmud does not address, whether lighting shabbat candles is kabbalat shabbat and if one recites a blessing over their lighting. In Halakhot Gedolot there is a clear statement that lighting shabbat candles [...]
There is a disagreement among scholars as to the author(s) of the Geonic work Halakhot Gedolot. See this post for a discussion of the question. I just saw this in a flyer from Mechon Yerushalayim, so I guess that we know to some extent how they answer the question.
I must say that I thought the posts on urinating rabbis were over and done with, but here’s more. It seems like the urinating rabbis were already discussed in a number of places. See Michael Satlow, “Jewish Constructions of Nakedness in Late Antiquity, Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 116, No. 3 (Autumn, 1997), [...]
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