R. Yair Hoffman has some comments on the printing of the Shulhan Aruch,
Most of us know that the Shulchan Aruch was written by Rabbi Yoseph Karo. Most of us also know that the additions of the Rama, Rabbi Moshe Isserless, were added to the Shulchan Aruch and they served to eventually make the Shulchan Aruch [...]
Great news via Hirhurim.
Bnei Banim Online:
The four volumes of R. Yehuda Henkin’s Responsa Bnei Banim are now available on HebrewBooks.org:
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From an interview with R. Benny Lau.
Rabbi Benjamin (Benny) Lau, a leading voice of modern Orthodoxy in Israel, believes in “evolution, not revolution.”
When it comes to human rights, women’s rights, treatment of animals and other issues not necessarily considered in the religious realm, Rabbi Lau – the 47-year-old director of the Center for Judaism and [...]
A while ago I posted here on the folk tale about Two Brothers, a Field and the building of the Temple. Recently, Admiel Kosman has published an article about this folk tale with a different approach and conclusion than most of those scholars whom I quoted in my earlier post. Using Bible scholar [...]
Yehudah D. Galinsky has an article in the new JQR, 98/3, Summer 2008, “On Popular Halakhic Literature and the Jewish Reading Audience in Fourteenth-Century Spain.” From the abstract,
The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was not an auspicious period for the Jews of Europe. In contrast, the Jewish communities of Christian Spain seem to have been [...]
A new book by Simcha Fishbane, Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature: A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays. A review here from Mayer Gruber. Both this and the last review are from the new issue of the Review of Biblical Literature. (hat tip)
A new blog which I have been following with interest, Rav Tzair (in Hebrew), posts a link to a conference held this summer at the Lander Institute on various aspects of the Oral Law. Some of the lectures are available to view in video, hear in audio, or read in PDF. The link [...]
If you were wondering how controversial the International Bible Quiz (Hidon ha-Tanakh) could be, this year proved you wrong. An Israeli girl who is apparently a Messianic Jew is in the finals, and there are some who want to prohibit her participation. (See these two posts by ADDeRabbi and don’t miss this video whose [...]
I don’t think that I have noticed this before, but among the articles which Prof. Shamma Friedman has posted on his website is his seminal article, “A Critical Study of Yevamot X with a Methodological Introduction” (Hebrew) which was published in Texts and Studies, Analecta Judaica I, ed. H. Z. Dimitrovsky, New York, 1977, pp. [...]
The journal Oral Tradition is now online. This includes both the current issue and its archives. (hat tip) One specific issue which will probably be of interest to many of this blog’s readers is vol. 14 no. 11, which has the following articles:
Jewish Folk Literature
by Dan Ben-Amos
The Fixing of the Oral Mishnah and [...]
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