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Avrohom Came to Eulogize Sorah and to Bewail Her. (23:2) Now Avrohom
Parshas Chayei Sorah 5776 Volume 15, Issue 4 P ARSHA I N SI G H T S P O N S O R Avrohom came to eulogize Sorah and to bewail her. (23:2) MAZEL TOV TO THE Sorah’s death is written immediately after the episode of the Akeida because upon hearing PLATSCHEK FAMILY ON the news of the Akeida – that her son was bound to be slaughtered but saved at the last THE BAR MITZVAH OF moment - her soul departed and she died. (Rashi) MOSHE People involved in the performance of a mitzva are not harmed. (Pesochim 8a) SPONSORED BY Avrohom’s final nisoyon (test) was the Akeida. Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita asked as NOCHI AND AVIVA follows - How could the performance of a mitzva - the Akeida - be the cause for Avrohom LIPINS to lose his wife Sorah? Why didn’t the performance of the mitzva protect him? Rav Chaim explained with the following principle. If it has been decreed that a person should live at a specific moment, then a dangerous situation cannot harm him if he is DILEMMA performing a mitzva. However, i f it has been decreed that it is time for a person to pass Now Avrohom was old, well on away, the performance of a mitzva will not prevent that decree from being implemented. his years, and Hashem blessed Therefore, Avrohom was not protected by the fulfillment of the mitzva of the Akeida Avrohom with everything. (24:1) because it had been decreed from Above that it was time for Sorah to pass away. -
צב | עב January Tevet | Sh’Vat Capricorn Saturn | Aquarius Saturn
צב | עב January Tevet | Sh’vat Capricorn Saturn | Aquarius Saturn Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 | 17th of Tevet* 2 | 18th of Tevet* New Year’s Day Parashat Vayechi Abraham Moshe Hillel Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech of Dinov Rabbi Salman Mutzfi Rabbi Huna bar Mar Zutra & Rabbi Rabbi Yaakov Krantz Mesharshya bar Pakod Rabbi Moshe Kalfon Ha-Cohen of Jerba 3 | 19th of Tevet * 4* | 20th of Tevet 5 | 21st of Tevet * 6 | 22nd of Tevet* 7 | 23rd of Tevet* 8 | 24th of Tevet* 9 | 25th of Tevet* Parashat Shemot Rabbi Menchachem Mendel Yosef Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon Rabbi Leib Mochiach of Polnoi Rabbi Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi Rabbi Yaakov Abuchatzeira Rabbi Yisrael Dov of Vilednik Rabbi Schulem Moshkovitz Rabbi Naphtali Cohen Miriam Mizrachi Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler 10 | 26th of Tevet* 11 | 27th of Tevet* 12 | 28th of Tevet* 13* | 29th of Tevet 14* | 1st of Sh’vat 15* | 2nd of Sh’vat 16 | 3rd of Sh’vat* Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat Parashat Vaera Rabbeinu Avraham bar Dovid mi Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch HaRav Yitzhak Kaduri Rabbi Meshulam Zusha of Anipoli Posquires Rabbi Yehoshua Yehuda Leib Diskin Rabbi Menahem Mendel ben Rabbi Shlomo Leib Brevda Rabbi Eliyahu Moshe Panigel Abraham Krochmal Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin 17* | 4th of Sh’vat 18 | 5th of Sh’vat* 19 | 6th of Sh’vat* 20 | 7th of Sh’vat* 21 | 8th of Sh’vat* 22 | 9th of Sh’vat* 23* | 10th of Sh’vat* Parashat Bo Rabbi Yisrael Abuchatzeirah Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum Rabbi Nathan David Rabinowitz -
LEGACY JUDAICA May 30Th 2021
LEGACY JUDAICA May 30th 2021 AUCTION OF FINE ANTIQUE JUDAICA Sunday May 30th 2021 1:00 pm Estreia 978 River Ave, Lakewood, N.J. 08701 PRE AUCTION VIEWING: Tuesday May 25th in Lakewood NJ by appointment Wednesday May 26th in Lakewood NJ by appointment Thursday May 27th in Lakewood NJ by appointment ONLINE BIDDING AT: http://legacyjudaica.bidspirit.com LEGACY JUDAICA Tel: 732.523.2262 Fax: 732.523.2191 Email: [email protected] legacyjudaica.net נבלי וכנורי בפי עטי גני ופרדסי ספריה ר׳ יהודה הלוי “My lyre and my harp are the u t t e r a n c e s o f m y q u i l l , M y g a r d e n and my orchard are it’s literature” R. Yehuda Halevi LEGACY JUDAICA LEGACY JUDAICA Yehuda A. Schwarz SEFORIM AND MANUSCRIPTS Feivel Schneider EDITOR IN CHIEF N. Ben-Moshe RABBINIC RESEARCH Rabbi Moshe Maimon HEBREW TRANSCRIPTS Rabbi Shlome Meir Pashkus HEBREW TEXT Shoshana Visky GRAPHICS AND DESIGN Sara Hager WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR Shloime Breuer - Tech Design Shoshana Meyer mbtechdesign.com IMAGING AND PHOTOGRAPHY Moshe Cweiber CONTENTS EARLY PRINTED SEFORIM ספרים מודפסים קדומים 6 PRINTED SEFORIM ספרים מודפסים 30 MANUSCRIPTS OF SEFORIM כתבי יד של ספרים 54 POLEMICS פולמוסים 57 SIFREI CHASSIDUS AND KABBALAH ספרי קבלה/חסידות 65 SIFREI SLAVITTA AND ZHITOMIR ספרי סלאוויטא/ז׳יטומיר 73 SIFREI HA'GRA ספרי הגר׳׳א 78 HOLOCAUST שואה 85 SEFORIM WITH SIGNATURES/GLOSSES ספרים עם חתימות/ הערות 86 RABBINICAL LETTERS/MANUSCRIPTS מכתבים מרבנים וכתבי יד 100 Early Printed Seforim ספרים מודפסים קדומים ספרי יסוד. עמודי גולה סמ׳׳ק. -
Evolution Vs. Intelligent Design a Torah
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75 Years and Beyond
75 YEARS AND BEYOND BERNARD REVEL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES YESHIVA UNIVERSITY 75 YEARS AND BEYOND 75 YEARS AND BEYOND 75 YEARS AND BEYOND RICHARD M. JOEL President, Yeshiva University I have developed a keen interest in the remarkable legacy of the first president of Yeshiva University. Through his unique vision and untiring commitment, Dr. Bernard Revel made it his mission to build, sustain and grow Yeshiva into the first college of its kind in the world. When pondering the extent of his legacy, one must consider not only Dr. Revel’s profound rabbinic scholarship, but his academic Jewish scholarship as well. From the beginning, he proffered a vision in which the world of Torah in all its facets and forms of study could be explored and celebrated at this institution; how fitting, therefore, that our graduate school of Jewish studies everlastingly bears his name and imprint. The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, founded more than 75 years ago, finds itself in the midst of a spectacular renaissance. The quality of both our senior faculty, and a brilliant cadre of junior faculty, enables Revel to have an impact far beyond its boundaries. Our prestigious academic programs are simply unmatched. We’re seeing an extraordinary increase not only in students pursuing master’s degrees, but aspiring scholars who are working on their doctorates; so many of them have entered and enriched our communities with their immense knowledge and tremendous scholarly output. Within Yeshiva, Revel’s vertical integration throughout the Jewish studies programs at this university has further fostered the sacred Torah Umadda conversation in inestimable ways. -
Covenant & Conversation
Tzav 5772 Volume XIX Number 26 Toras Aish Thoughts From Across the Torah Spectrum CHIEF RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS To this day, these are the situations of hazard Covenant & Conversation (many nowadays include air travel as well as a sea voyage) on which we say Hagomel when we come mong the sacrifices detailed in this week's sedra through them safely. is the korban todah, the thanksgiving offering: "If In his book A Rumour of Angels, the American Ahe offers it [the sacrifice] as a thanksgiving sociologist Peter Berger describes what he calls offering, then along with this thanksgiving offering he is "signals of transcendence"-phenomena within the to offer unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened human situation that point to something beyond. Among wafers spread with oil, and loaves of fine flour well- them he includes humour and hope. There is nothing in kneaded and mixed with oil." (Lev. 7:12). nature that explains our ability to reframe painful Though we have been without sacrifices for situations in such a way that we can laugh at them; nor almost two thousand years, a trace of the thanksgiving is there anything that can explain the human capacity to offering survives to this day, in the form of the blessing find meaning even in the depths of suffering. known as Hagomel: "Who bestows good things on the These are not, in the classic sense, proofs of unworthy", said in the synagogue, at the time of reading the existence of G-d, but they are experiential evidence. of the Torah, by one who has survived a hazardous They tell us that we are not random concatenations of situation. -
כלכתה, 1843 266. רזיאל המלאך – כלכותה תר“ה 267. Sefer Hayashar – Calcutta
267. ספר הישר – כלכתה, 1843 ספר הישר, ספור פרשיות התורה על פי מדרשים ומקורות נוספים. מחבר לא נודע. כלכתה, [תר“ג 1843]. וואריאנט. בתקליטור מפעל הביבליוגרפיה נרשם עותק בו נדפסו דפים ט-יז בצורה שונה, ואילו דפים יח-כד לא נמצאים, בתוספת ההשערה שדפים אלו אבדו או נשרפו והוחלפו באחרים. לפנינו נמצאים כל הדפים המקוריים ומספור העמודים שלם. חתימת בעלים מזרחית. קצג, [1] דף. 20 ס“מ. מצב טוב. כתמים. רוב הדפים נקיים עם שוליים רחבים. סימני עש. דף השער מנותק ומעט בלוי. קרעים בדף האחרון. כריכה מנותקת ופגומה. מהספרים הראשונים שנדפסו בכלכתה. 265 266 267 פתיחה: $250 266. רזיאל המלאך – כלכותה תר“ה Sefer HaYashar – Calcutta, 1843 266. Raziel HaMalach – Calcutta 1845 .267 ”ספרא דאדם קדמאה שנתן לו רזיאל המלאך“, קבלה וסגולות עם ,”Sefer HaYashar, stories of the Parshiot of the Torah “Book of First Man given to him by Raziel HaMalach איורים קבליים. כלכותה, תר“ה (1845). רישומי סגולות בכתב-יד. .according to Midrashim and additional sources. kabala and segulot with kabalistic illustrations ספר זה הוא המקור להרבה סגולות ידועות וקמיעות שמירה .Unknown author. Calcutta, [1843]. Calcutta, 1845. Handwritten inscriptions of segulot ליולדת. עצם החזקת ספר זה בבית היא סגולה בדוקה ומנוסה Variant. Bibliography Institute CD lists a copy in which This book is the source for many known segulot and להצלה מפגעים ומשריפות, כפי שכתוב בשער הספר שלפנינו: leaves 9-17 were printed in a different format, whereas protection amulets for women giving birth. Just owning ”סגולה מועלה [!] לראות בני בנים חכמים ונבונים, ולהצלחה -leaves 18-24 do not exist; it is assumed that these leaves this book in your house is a proven segula of protec ולברכה, ולכבות אש המערכה שלא ישלוט בביתו, וכל שד ופגע were lost or burned and replaced with others. -
Rabbis and Communism,Pini Dunner —
Marc B. Shapiro – Rabbis and Communism Rabbis and Communism By Marc B. Shapiro I had intended my newest post to be on the Rav’s famous essay “Confrontation,” but I recently received the latest issue of Tradition with Rabbi Yitzchak Blau’s article “Rabbinic Responses to Communism,” so let me make a few comments about it. First, I must say that it is a good read, like all of Blau’s writing, and I was impressed with the range of topics he attempts to tackle. My only suggestion for improvement would have been to examine the larger context of Jewish communist anti-clerical sentiment, which made it very hard for the rabbis to be sympathetic to communism. Yet this anti-clerical feeling did not arise in a vacuum. Quite apart from the traditional Marxist aversion to religion, the rabbis, like their non-Jewish religious counterparts, were generally aligned with the aristocracy, who paid their salary and took their sons as marriage partners for their daughters. The rabbis were thus seen as standing in the way of economic justice. In fact, there has been a long plutocratic tradition in the Jewish world, which meant complete disenfranchisement of the poor from all communal decisions. I don’t know of any Jewish community in history where people who could not afford to pay taxes were given communal voting rights. (This would be the modern equivalent of not giving welfare recipients the right to vote – wouldn’t the Republicans love to make this the law of the land!) R. Samuel de Medina goes so far as to argue that the wealthy are qualitatively superior to the poor, citing in support of this horrible notion Eccl. -
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i DAVID, Bruria Hutner, 1938- , THE DUAL ??OLE OF RABBI ZVI HIRSCH CHAJES: TRADITIONALTCT AND MASKIL. Columbia University, Ph.D., 1971 Language and Literature, modern University Microfilms, A )(ErnCompany ,Ann Arbor, Michigan @ Copyright Bruria Hutner David THE DUAL ROLE OF RABBI ZVI HIRSCH CXAJES: TRADITIONALIST AND MASKIL Bruria Hutner David 1971 Submitted in partial fulfiilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University. ABSTRACT The Dual Role of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes: Traditionalist and Maskil Bruria Hutner David The name of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes (1805-1856) is familiar to those well versed in the history of Jewish culture, to students of the Talmud as well as to those who study the origins of the haskalah-- movement. Yet very few of these very same. people would be able to offer a compre- hensive intellzctual or personal portrait of this colorful figure. This study undertakes a careful investigation of his writings and activities with the aim of identifying elements in his habit of mind. In an era of cultural conflict between the two worlds of traditional culture and a more secular haskalah approach, he represent^-: a rare oddity: a prominent rabbi in the Galician community of Zolkiew partaking, socially and intel- lectually, of the world of haskalaQ. How successful was he Fzl synthesizing a harmonious blend of both worlds? It is the central thesis of this dissertation that in both thought and deed, 1. ,.vdbi Chajes showed a tendency to vacillate be- tween the two worlds. Although he identified with time- honored evaluations of Jewish culture, his views are often characterized by a subtle dualism so that he may be classi- fied as the traditionalist amidst maski'lim and at the same time as the maskil anong traditionalists. -
Pachad David
Behar Weekly Bulletin on the Parshah Bechukotay May 20th 2017 24th of Iyar 5777 Pachad David 699 Published by Mosdot Orot Chaim U’Moshe in Israel Under the auspices of Moreinu v’Rabbeinu Hagaon Hatzaddik Rabbi David Chananya Pinto, shlita Son of the tzaddik and miracle-worker Rabbi Moshe Ahron Pinto, zt”l, and grandson of the holy tzaddik and miracle-worker Rabbi Chaim Pinto, zy”a MaskilMASKIL L'David LÉDAVID Weekly talk on the Parshah given by Moreinu v’Rabbeinu Hagaon Hatzaddik Rabbi David Chananya Pinto, shlita Curbing the Passion for Materialism Yovel stems from the same reason, so that a person “And the L-rd spoke to Moshe should not feel that the world belongs to him, but on Mount Sinai, saying” there is a Master of the World whom everything (Vayikra 25:1) belongs to. Likewise, the mitzvah of Ribbit (inter- There are several subjects discussed in this para- est) alludes to this, since a person can assume that shah; the subject of Shemittah – after six years of his money belongs to him, and he can do with it as working the land, one must refrain from any work he pleases, lending it with interest in order to gain in the fields in the seventh year. The subject of Yovel profit. Hashem forbade this with a severe prohibi- – after seven Shemittah years, in the fiftieth year, tion. The purpose is to sanctify the most material there is another year of Sabbatical for the land, in possessions of a person, which is his money, so which the properties return to their original own- that he should not be drawn after materialism, and ers, and in which the slaves are freed. -
Lev Bookv12:Layout 1
Bringing the Families of Israel to Torah P’EYLIM / LEV L’A CHIM ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD ■ ISRAEL National Headquarters Rav Menachem Cohen Rav Zvi Eliach Rav Baruch Schapira Shaje Weiss Z’l Building Chairman 2 Bareket Street, Netanya Tel. 09- 889-2000 National Operations Centers CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ISRAEL Eli Stern Z’l Building 4 Zecharia Street, Bnai Brak Tel. 03-578-1782 SOUTHERN ISRAEL Rabbi Eliezer Sorotzkin Rabbi Uri Zohar 27 Pines Street, Jerusalem Rav Eliyahu Director General Kiruv Director Meir Klugman Tel. 02-531-2555 Regional Centers Rehovot 152 Herzl St. 08-945-7395 Petach Tikvah 12 Chovevei Tzion St. 03-930-2222 Hadera 24 HaNasi St. 04-622-4747 Haifa 5 Geula St. 04-862-6625 Jerusalem 27 Pines Street 02-531-2555 Netanya 2 Bareket St. 09-889-2000 Bnei Brak 4 Zecharia St. 03-578-1782 Rabbi Avraham Zaivald Rabbi Zvi Schwartz Rabbi Menachem Schwartz Akko 28 Giborei Sinai St. 04-981-7643 Treasurer Branch Director, Rehovot Branch Director, Petach Tikvah ■ US DEVELOPMENT HEADQUARTERS 1034 East Twelfth Street Brooklyn, New York 11230 Tel. (718) 258 - 7760 Fax (718) 258-4672 Rabbi Joseph C. Karmel Rabbi Nachum Barnetsky National Director Executive Vice President ■ P’eylim/ Lev L’Achim is a registered charitable organization in Israel, USA, UK, Switzerland and Canada. Table of Contents KIRUV RECHOKIM - OUTREACH PUBLIC LECTURES 7 PROJECT “DOOR-TO-DOOR”8 KIRUV KOLLELIM 8 LEV L’A CHIM CENTERS 9 MIDRASHOT SHALHEVET 9 ISRAEL'S YOUTH PROJECT RISHUM 11-13 LEV SHOMEA 14 IMUTZ TALMIDIM 15 IRGUN BOGROT 15 THE BATTLE FOR THE NESHOMA OF ISRAEL ANTI MISSIONARY TASK FORCE 16 REHABILITATION HOSTEL 17 MAP OF NATIONWIDE PROGRAMS PAGES 18-19 or more than half a century, the Bnai Torah of Eretz Yisroel have Fstood in the forefront of the effort to bring the truth and beauty of authentic Jewish life to the immigrant masses and their subsequent generations who have strayed from the Torah heritage of their forebears.