From YU: The Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies presents an international conference for Sunday and Monday, March 27-8, 2011, which will take place at Yeshiva University Museum and on our historic Washington Heights campus. The conference is titled: Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine. In the century since Samuel [...]
The very important work Toldot Tannaim ve-Amoraim is now at Hebrew Books: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3. This book is a must for anyone who does any work with Talmudic literature and it has been out-of-print for some time.
Targuman describes here what the Targum to Ruth does with Ruth 1:16-17.
The Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University has been working on bridging the worlds of scholarship and pedagogy. A few years ago they sponsored a conference (video here) devoted to the teaching of Rabbinic literature. Some fruits of their efforts can be found in these working papers, some of which have [...]
I just got a few new books that have recently (one not so recently) been printed in Israel. Thanks to my parents and the mail, here are a few of the new books on my shelf. 1. Admiel Kosman, מסכת נשים. This is the companion volume to Kosman’s study of midrashim and legends about men [...]
The very good blog, Tosefta Online, has a series of informative posts, Introduction to the Tosefta, addressing questions of dating, authorship, manuscripts, and printed editions.
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 of Rabbi [...]
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 question [...]
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 [...]
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