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TALMUDIC STUDIES Ephraim Kanarfogel
chapter 22 TALMUDIC STUDIES ephraim kanarfogel TRANSITIONS FROM THE EAST, AND THE NASCENT CENTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, SPAIN, AND ITALY The history and development of the study of the Oral Law following the completion of the Babylonian Talmud remain shrouded in mystery. Although significant Geonim from Babylonia and Palestine during the eighth and ninth centuries have been identified, the extent to which their writings reached Europe, and the channels through which they passed, remain somewhat unclear. A fragile consensus suggests that, at least initi- ally, rabbinic teachings and rulings from Eretz Israel traveled most directly to centers in Italy and later to Germany (Ashkenaz), while those of Babylonia emerged predominantly in the western Sephardic milieu of Spain and North Africa.1 To be sure, leading Sephardic talmudists prior to, and even during, the eleventh century were not yet to be found primarily within Europe. Hai ben Sherira Gaon (d. 1038), who penned an array of talmudic commen- taries in addition to his protean output of responsa and halakhic mono- graphs, was the last of the Geonim who flourished in Baghdad.2 The family 1 See Avraham Grossman, “Zik˙atah shel Yahadut Ashkenaz ‘el Erets Yisra’el,” Shalem 3 (1981), 57–92; Grossman, “When Did the Hegemony of Eretz Yisra’el Cease in Italy?” in E. Fleischer, M. A. Friedman, and Joel Kraemer, eds., Mas’at Mosheh: Studies in Jewish and Moslem Culture Presented to Moshe Gil [Hebrew] (Jerusalem, 1998), 143–57; Israel Ta- Shma’s review essays in K˙ ryat Sefer 56 (1981), 344–52, and Zion 61 (1996), 231–7; Ta-Shma, Kneset Mehkarim, vol. -
Jewish Historical Clock
Reigns of Rulers of the Kingdom of Bohemia Louxenburg Kings Elected Czech King Jagelonians Austro Hungary Habsburgs Czechoslovakia Communist Czechoslovakia Czech Republic Wenceslav IV Sigismund George of Podiebrad Vladislav Ludwig Ferdinand I Maximilian II Rudolph II Mathias Ferdinand II Ferdinand III Leopold I Joseph I Karl VI Maria Theresia Joseph II Leopold II Franz II Ferdinand I of Austro Hungary Franz Joseph Masaryk/Benes Havel 1378/1419 1419/1437 1458/1471 1471/1516 1516/1526 1526/1564 1564/1576 1576/1612 1612/1619 1619/1637 1637/1657 1658/1705 1705/1711 1711/1740 1740/1780 1780/1790 1790/1792 1792/1835 1835/1848 1848/1916 1918/1939 1948/1990 1990 to date Husite Rebelion Jan Hus Burned 1415 Jan Ziska d. 1439 Lev of Rozhmithall d. 1480 Jewish Historical Clock - Branches From The Start Of The Horowitz Family Name In Prague Up To The Horowitz Dynasty In Dzikow/Tarnobrzeg Poland Giving Estimates Of Birth Years For Each Generation 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1382/1406 1406/1430 1430/1454 1454/1478 1478/1502 1502/1526 1526/1550 1550/1574 1574/1598 1598/1622 1622/1646 1646/1670 1670/1694 1694/1718 1718/1742 1742/1766 1766/1790 1790/1814 1814/1838 1838/1862 1862/1886 1886/1910 1910/1934 1934/1958 1958/1982 1982/2006 S R. Yosef Yoske R. Asher Zeligman R. Meir ben Asher Jan(Yona) Halevy Ish R. Yosef of Vilna R. Yehoshua Heshel R. Chaim Cheika R. -
Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 10-2014 'Like Iron to a Magnet': Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence David Sclar Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/380 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] “Like Iron to a Magnet”: Moses Hayim Luzzatto’s Quest for Providence By David Sclar A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in History in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The City University of New York 2014 © 2014 David Sclar All Rights Reserved This Manuscript has been read and accepted by the Graduate Faculty in History in satisfaction of the Dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Prof. Jane S. Gerber _______________ ____________________________________ Date Chair of the Examining Committee Prof. Helena Rosenblatt _______________ ____________________________________ Date Executive Officer Prof. Francesca Bregoli _______________________________________ Prof. Elisheva Carlebach ________________________________________ Prof. Robert Seltzer ________________________________________ Prof. David Sorkin ________________________________________ Supervisory Committee iii Abstract “Like Iron to a Magnet”: Moses Hayim Luzzatto’s Quest for Providence by David Sclar Advisor: Prof. Jane S. Gerber This dissertation is a biographical study of Moses Hayim Luzzatto (1707–1746 or 1747). It presents the social and religious context in which Luzzatto was variously celebrated as the leader of a kabbalistic-messianic confraternity in Padua, condemned as a deviant threat by rabbis in Venice and central and eastern Europe, and accepted by the Portuguese Jewish community after relocating to Amsterdam. -
J Ewish Community and Civic Commune In
Jewish community and civic commune in the high Middle Ages'' CHRISTOPH CLUSE 1. The following observations do not aim to provide a comprehensive phe nomenology of the J ewish community during the high and late medieval periods. Rather 1 wish to present the outlines of a model which describes the status of the Jewish community within the medieval town or city, and to ask how the concepts of >inclusion< and >exclusion< can serve to de scribe that status. Using a number of selected examples, almost exclusively drawn from the western regions of the medieval German empire, 1 will concentrate, first, on a comparison betweenJewish communities and other corporate bodies (>universitates<) during the high medieval period, and, secondly, on the means by which Jews and Jewish communities were included in the urban civic corporations of the later Middle Ages. To begin with, 1 should point out that the study of the medieval Jewish community and its various historical settings cannot draw on an overly rich tradition in German historical research. 1 The >general <historiography of towns and cities that originated in the nineteenth century accorded only sporadic attention to the J ews. Still, as early as 1866 the legal historian Otto Stobbe had paid attention to the relationship between the Jewish ::- The present article first appeared in a slightly longer German version entitled Die mittelalterliche jüdische Gemeinde als »Sondergemeinde« - eine Skizze. In: J OHANEK, Peter (ed. ): Sondergemeinden und Sonderbezirke in der Stadt der Vormoderne (Städteforschung, ser. A, vol. 52). Köln [et al.] 2005, pp. 29-51. Translations from the German research literature cited are my own. -
Das Meer Der Halacha: Der Talmud Ist Wie Das Große Meer Shirr 5,20
Das Meer der Halacha: Der Talmud ist wie das große Meer ShirR 5,20 1 Traktat Avot, Kapitel 1 מסכת אבות פרק א 1,1 א (א) Mose empfing Tora vom Sinai משה קבל תורה מסיני, und übergab sie Josua ומסרה ליהושע, (שמות יח, במדבר יא) und Josua den Ältesten ויהושע לזקנים, und Älteste Propheten וזקנים לנביאים, .und Propheten übergaben sie den Leuten der Großen Versammlung ונביאים מסרוה לאנשי כנסת הגדולה. :Die sagte drei Dinge הם אמרו שלשה דברים, (Seid geduldig/abwartend/moderat/gemäßigt im Gericht(sprozeß (1) הוו מתונים בדין, und stellt viele Schüler auf (2) והעמידו תלמידים הרבה, .und macht einen Zaun für die Tora (3) ועשו סיג לתורה: 1,2 א (ב) Simëon der Gerechte שמעון הצדיק .war von den Übrigen der großen Versammlung היה משירי כנסת הגדולה. :Er pflegte zu sagen הוא היה אומר, :Auf drei Dingen steht die Welt על שלשה דברים העולם עומד, auf der Tora (1) על התורה und auf dem Dienst/der Liturgie (2) ועל העבודה .und auf frommer Wohltat (3) ועל גמילות חסדים: 2 Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 5, col. 635f Literaturüberblick auf einem Blatt 3 1 Überblick über die Traditionsliteratur Überblick über die Traditionsliteratur 1. Bibel 2. Mischna, Tosefta und Baraita 3. Gemara a) des Westens, Babyloniens, der Exilsgemeinde b) des Ostens, Jerusalems, des Landes Israel 4. Midrasch 5. Responsen 6. Liturgie-Bücher: Siddur und Machsor 7. Halacha-Kompendien: a) Talmudparaphrase (Rif, Rabbi Isaak al-Fasi, 1013–1103) b) Mizwot-Sammlungen (SeMaG, SeMaK – Sefer Mitzwot Gadol/Katan) c) Mischne Tora (Maimonides, RaMBaM, Rabbi Mose Ben Maimon, 1135–1204) d) Tur (Baal ha-Turim, Jakob ben Ascher, 1270–1340) e) Bet Josef, Schulchan Aruch (Josef Karo, 1488–1575) f) Mappa (RaMa/ReMa/ReMo/ReMu, Rabbi Mose ben Israel/Mose Isserles, 1525–1572) 8. -
Apostates and More, Part 2,The History Behind the Ashkenazi
Apostates and More, Part 2 Apostates and More, Part 2 Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here 1. Another apostate was Rabbi Nehemiah ben Jacob ha-Kohen of Ferrara, who was an important supporter of R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto during the controversy about him.[1]Here is the the final page of the haskamah he wrote in 1729 for R. Aviad Sar Shalom Basilea’s Emunat Hakhamim. R. Isaac Lampronte, in a halakhic discussion in hisPahad Yitzhak, refers to Nehemiah, but not by name.[2] He calls him .In R .אחד מן החכמים רך בשנים אשר אחרי כן הבאיש ריחו כנודע Hananel Nepi and R. Mordechai Samuel Ghirondi, Toldot Gedolei Yisrael (Trieste, 1853), p. 229, they write about Obviously, “Ishmaelite” is a .שאח”כ נעשה ישמעאלי :Nehemiah code word for Christian.[3] The story reported by Samuel David Luzzatto is that Nehemiah used to go to prostitutes, and when the rabbis found out about this they removed the rabbinate from him. Too embarrassed to remain in the Jewish community, Nehemiah apostatized.[4] Cecil Roth cites another Italian source that Nehemiah converted so he could marry a Christian woman. Unfortunately, his son and three daughters apostatized together with him (his wife had apparently already died).[5] Another apostate who should be mentioned is Michael Solomon Alexander (1799-1844), first Anglican bishop in Jerusalem. Before his apostasy, Alexander was a rabbi.[6] Rabbi Abraham Romano of Tunis also became an apostate. He converted at the end of the seventeenth century when R. Meir Lombrozo was appointed a dayan in his place. After Romano converted, he became well known as a Islamic preacher, and after his death his tomb was venerated by Muslims. -
Roster of Religious Personnel Page 1 Compiled by Earl Pruce
4/25/2019 Roster of Religious Personnel Page 1 Compiled by Earl Pruce Name Title Position Congregation / Organization Location Date Death Date Abelow, Peter (Dr.) Principal Beth Tfiloh Congregation High School --1989 Abramowitz, Abraham Rabbi Anshe Neisen Congregation Nov. 15, 1926 Abramowitz, Abraham Rabbi Tifereth Israel Congregation of Forest Park Forest Park Nov. 15, 1926 Abrams, Mendel L., Dr. Rabbi Beth Torah Congregation Hyattsville 1989, 1996, 1997 Abramson, Barry Ephraim Rabbi Shochet 1999- Abramson, Mordechai Rabbi Shochet 1989 Ackerman, Everett S. Rabbi Moses Montefiore Emunath Israel Woodmoor Hebrew Congregation 1978-1998? Ackerson, Mitchell S. Rabbi Chaplain Sinai Hospital 1993-- Adashek, Steven Mohel M.D. Mohel, 2004 Adler, Abraham Rabbi Anshe Sphard Congregation Feb. 17, 1920 Adler, Elan Rabbi Associate Rabbi Beth Tfiloh Congregation July 1993--Jan 2001 Adler, Elan Rabbi "Rabbi Designate" Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah, Liberty Jewish Center Jan 2001 Adler, Joseph Cantor Har Zion Congregation 1928?-1933 Adler, L. Rabbi Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Congregation Adler, Leon Rabbi Temple Emanuel Kensington 1953-1988 1988 Aftel, Jeffrey Rabbi Hebrew Day School Montgomery County 2001 Agus, Jacob B. Rabbi Beth El Congregation 1950-1980 Sept. 26, 1986 Albrecht, Avraham (Avi) Cantor Beth Tfiloh Congregation 1996- Alpern, Ian Cantor Beth Israel Congregation 1969-- Alter,Joel Rabbi Shoshana S Cardin Community H S Baltimore 2002 Altman, Solomon B. Cantor Har Zion Congregation 1934-5, 1941 Altmeyer, ? Cantor Temple Oheb Shalom 1853? Altshul, William Rabbi Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington Silver Spring 1996, 1997,2004 Amerling, Suzanne (Dr.) Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Religious School 1989, 1990 Anemer, Gedaliah Rabbi Yeshiva Boys School Silver Spring 1989 Anemer, Gedaliah Rabbi Young Israel Shomrai Emunah Congregation Silver Spring 1989-92, 1996, 1997 Ansell (Anshel), Rev. -
אוסף מרמורשטיין the Marmorstein Collection
אוסף מרמורשטיין The Marmorstein Collection Brad Sabin Hill THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Manchester 2017 1 The Marmorstein Collection CONTENTS Acknowledgements Note on Bibliographic Citations I. Preface: Hebraica and Judaica in the Rylands -Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts: Crawford, Gaster -Printed Books: Spencer Incunabula; Abramsky Haskalah Collection; Teltscher Collection; Miscellaneous Collections; Marmorstein Collection II. Dr Arthur Marmorstein and His Library -Life and Writings of a Scholar and Bibliographer -A Rabbinic Literary Family: Antecedents and Relations -Marmorstein’s Library III. Hebraica -Literary Periods and Subjects -History of Hebrew Printing -Hebrew Printed Books in the Marmorstein Collection --16th century --17th century --18th century --19th century --20th century -Art of the Hebrew Book -Jewish Languages (Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish, Others) IV. Non-Hebraica -Greek and Latin -German -Anglo-Judaica -Hungarian -French and Italian -Other Languages 2 V. Genres and Subjects Hebraica and Judaica -Bible, Commentaries, Homiletics -Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Rabbinic Literature -Responsa -Law Codes and Custumals -Philosophy and Ethics -Kabbalah and Mysticism -Liturgy and Liturgical Poetry -Sephardic, Oriental, Non-Ashkenazic Literature -Sects, Branches, Movements -Sex, Marital Laws, Women -History and Geography -Belles-Lettres -Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine -Philology and Lexicography -Christian Hebraism -Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim Relations -Jewish and non-Jewish Intercultural Influences -
Jewish Law and the Private Facts Tort
“THOU SHALT NOT GO ABOUT AS A TALEBEARER AMONG 1 THY PEOPLE” : JEWISH LAW AND THE PRIVATE FACTS TORT INTRODUCTION...................................................................811 I. THE PRIVATE FACTS TORT IN THE UNITED STATES..............813 A. The Creation of the Private Facts Tort ............................813 B. Justifications for the Private Facts Tort ...........................814 C. Questioning the Premise of the Public Facts Tort..............816 D. Free Speech and the Right to Privacy...............................818 II. FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICAN AND JEWISH LAW ........................................................................820 A. Law and Morality .........................................................820 B. Judaism and Human Rights..........................................824 C. Judaism and the Right to Free Speech..............................825 III. EVIL SPEECH IN JEWISH LAW ...............................................828 A. Lashon Hara—Introduction ........................................828 B. Lashon Hara—Justifications for the Prohibition............829 C. The Parameters of Lashon Hara (Evil Speech)...............831 D. Modesty vs. Privacy: Jewish Law and Non-Defamatory Disclosures of Private Fact .............834 IV. DAMAGES AND THE PRIVATE FACTS TORT .............................838 A. Jewish Law and Damages for Verbal Harms....................838 CONCLUSION........................................................................841 INTRODUCTION As we begin the twenty-first century, -
Medieval English Rabbis: Image and Self-Image Pinchas Roth
Medieval English Rabbis: Image and Self-Image Pinchas Roth Early Middle English, Volume 1, Number 1, 2019, pp. 17-33 (Article) Published by Arc Humanities Press For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/731651 [ Access provided at 2 Oct 2021 13:24 GMT with no institutional affiliation ] MEDIEVAL ENGLISH RABBIS: IMAGE AND SELF-IMAGE PINCHAS ROTH “The neglect of the British situation is explicable largely on the grounds that, compared with other northern, Ashkenazic communities, the Anglo-Jewish community was not perceived to have produced the scholarly superstars so evident in France and Germany.”1 tantalizing about the Jews of medieval England. So much about them is unknown, perhaps unknowable, and even those facts that are well known There is someThing and ostensibly unquestionable have drawn attempts2 There to were bend, no crack, Jewish or communitiesotherwise move in Anglo-Saxonthem. The chronologically England.3 first fact known about this Jewish community is that itHistory came intoof the being Jews onlyin England after the Norman Conquest. 4 The end of the But, medieval as Cecil Anglo-Jewish Roth commented experience on the is first also pageclear—the of his Edict of Expulsion of 1290 did, not“Fantasy allow hasfor any… attempted continued to Jewish carry presencethe story inback England. to a remote5 That hasantiquity.” not stopped various people from believing that Jews continued to live in England for * Boyarin and Shamma Boyarin for their kind invitation and extraordinary hospitality at the University I am deeply of Victoria. grateful to Menachem Butler for his unflagging help, and to Adrienne Williams 1 Patricia Skinner, “Introduction: Jews in Medieval Britain and Europe,” in The Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary, and Archaeological Perspectives, ed. -
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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