Abarbanel Haggadah: The Passover Haggadah With the Commentary of Don Isaac Abarbanel (Artscroll Mesorah Series)

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Herczeg, Yisrael Isser Zvi

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The very name of the Gra conjures images of towering Torah stature. From a small room in Vilna he shed illumination on every area of Torah. From halachah to kabbalah, Talmud to Shulchan Aruch to Tanach, the Jewish people have been infinitely enriched by the Gaon of Vilna. In the Vilna Gaon Haggadah, his son, Rabbeinu Avraham, one of the major conduits for his teachings, amplifies his ideas and brings them within the realm our understanding. The adaptations clarifies and crystallizes the major and minor themes of the Seder night -- while exposing the reader to the very special derech, approach, of the Vilna Gaon. Full color soil resistant laminated cover.

Vilna Gaon Haggadah: The Passover Haggadah With Commentaries by the Vilna Gaon and His Son R'Avraham

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Patterns in RashiWho can imagine ever trying to understand G-d's Torah without the steady hand of Rashi to help guide him? Rashi is the greatest of all commentators, the beloved teacher of the Jewish people whose explanations have ably guided us through Tanach and Talmud. In Patterns in Rashi Rabbi Yisrael Isser Zvi Herczeg, a noted Rashi scholar and translator of the famous Sapirstein Edition Rashi, examines the multilayered patterns in Rashi, and shows us how these patterns help us understand the magnificent precision and clarity of Rashi's explanation.

Patterns in Rashi

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<p>In “A Categorization of Errors Encountered in the Study of Zemanim,” the author demonstrates that halachic decisions in determining issues such as zmanei tefillah and the beginning and end of Shabbos are sometimes inaccurate because they do not account for the astronomical realities related to season and location. In “A Halachah in Mishneh Torah,” we see how the restructuring of the halakhot in Mishneh Torah by printers over the ages has for centuries deprived students of Rambam’s nuanced, measured, and finely structured lessons. A Hebrew article regarding the myth of Bugonia discusses Torah issues related to the ancient belief in the spontaneous generation of the bee. Error in practice rather than psak is the subject of an essay entitled “Asking a Child to Do a Melachah on Shabbat,” which addresses a particular case of laxity in observance of settled law. According to the Torah, no one is infallible; even the greatest in Israel are subject to error. An article in our Tanakh section, “From the Monarchy of David to the Children of Israel: A Comparative Study of Family Values and Legacy,” seeks to identify the flaw that led to the decline of the monarchy of the family of David HaMelech only two generations after his death. An essay in our Jewish Thought section, “Attitudes toward the Study of Zohar and Lurianic Kabbalah, from the Dawn of Chasidism to Present Day Chabad,” explains the position of Lubavitch leaders regarding the study of Kabbalah. Their belief that Chabad ḥasidus represents the peak of the development of the wisdom of Kabbalah led some to discourage study of primary Kabbalistic sources because of the danger of misinterpretation. On the other hand, in the other essay in this section, “Evolutionary Ethics: The Ta‘amei Hamitzvot of Rav Kook,” we learn that Kabbalistic thought was central to the philosophy of Rav Kook and discover his daring position that the nearing redemption would produce new insight into the reasons behind mitzvot. In our Tanakh section, “Ibn Ezra’s Interpretation of the Garden of Eden: Reality, Allegory or a Combination of the Two?” examines the rationalistic approach of one of our greatest commentators in reading the early parts of Bereshit.A follow-up to the article on Rav Moshe Soloveitchik in the last issue of Ḥakirah dispels old misconceptions and adds further evidence of and insight into the refusal of Rav Ḥayyim Brisker and his son to align themselves with Agudath Israel. Another Hebrew article, on the development of the Olam Ha-Torah in America immediately after World War II, seeks to explain why a once homogenous American Orthodox community split apart.Articles dealing with Jewish law cover a wide range of issues, dealing with both the common and uncommon. “Hormonal Intervention for the Prevention of Chupat Niddah” provides important guidance on how to use medical knowledge effectively in the practice of halakhah. In our History of Halakhah section, “Conditional Marriage to Prevent Suffering: Rav Yehudah Amital’s Approach” describes the kiddushin al tnai used by an important Dati Leumi Rav to prevent situations of iggun. And “‘Till Death Do Us Part: The Halachic Prospects of Marriage for Conjoined (Siamese) Twins” reviews rabbinic writings on the phenomenon of con-joined twins and its implications in halakhah. In “Are Converts to Judaism Required to Immerse Their Utensils after Conversion?” the author details a wide range of opinions among aḥaronim, some touching even upon the mystical.Other articles deal with scholarly examination of Torah texts. In “Did ArtScroll Censor Rashi?” the author rebuts an accusation of censorship by showing evidence that an omission of controversial words was based on consideration of the most reliable sources. And in “Kaddish de-Sidra: Virtual Kaddish Embedded in Our Daily Prayers” the author shows three places in our daily prayers that contain a tripling of the Kaddish ideals.</p>

Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought (Volume 26)

Miller, Chaim

Zelcer, Heshey

Zivotofsky, Ari Z.

Broyde, Michael J.

Strickman, H. Norman

Seeman, Don

Gewirtz, William

Novick, Ricky

Tawil, Joseph

Hakirah

<p>Ḥakirah is honored to present lectures given approximately 70 years ago by Ha-Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, zt”l on the opening verses of the Torah. In the five lectures presented here as the first of three installments, the Rav’s focus is on the question raised by the Amora Rav Yitzḥak as to why the Torah dwells on the story of creation and what philosophical truths we are to learn from it. Further delving into the Rav’s philosophical works is a review essay on Nietzsche, Soloveitchik and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy. The reviewer argues that “R. Soloveitchik took secular philosophy as a foil rather than as a foun-dation for his own hashkafa, which was deeply rooted in Jewish sources.”While the Rav’s work was often dedicated to harmonizing Torah hashkafa and halakha, in our Jewish Thought section we deal with two other twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who emphasized one above the other and who consequently are considered on the fringes of Orthodoxy. In an “Introduction to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Philosophy” we see that for Heschel the values and philosophy of Judaism overshadowed the importance of halakha. On the other hand, in “Sanctifying Our Choices: The Solution to the Paradox of Orthodoxy,” an essay on the thought of Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, we see that his thinking was the reverse, that all emphasis should be placed on halakha.The thought of another famous thinker who dealt with the challenges of modernity is explored in “Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on Jews in a Non-Jewish World,” which features the first English language translation of a book review by Rav Hirsch where he expounds about the appreciation Jews can get about Judaism itself from reading works that deal with Christian life. And in “The Life and Work of Dr. Menachem Mendel Yehudah Leib Sergei: A Torah U-Madda Titan in the Early Twentieth Century” we are introduced to and inspired by a unique but overlooked Jewish physician “who combines Torah, fear of G-d, and wisdom in an extraordinary way.”Several articles deal with censorship. In our Forum section, two scholars debate whether ArtScroll censored Rashi to disguise a non-traditional opinion of his, and present differing views on Rashi’s inter-pretation of the term tikun soferim. In “The Brothers Tugendhold &amp; Jewish Censorship in the Nineteenth Century: Addition and Subtrac-tion in the Warsaw 1853 Ḥumash,” the author examines the motives and guidelines behind Jewish self-censorship a century ago. In “The Ban on R. Yeḥiel Michal Pines in Jerusalem and his relationship with his brother-in-law, Rabbi David Friedman of Karlin,” we read of another type of “censorship” targeting what the Zealots of Jerusalem considered the intrusion of foreign influences into the Holy City of Jerusalem. In our Minhag section in an article entitled “Is it Permissible to turn one’s back to the Hekhal or Kotel During Qabbalat Shabbat?” the author objects to what he considers an errant new custom.A Hebrew article on Halakha looks at the RCA’s prenuptial agreement, calling for its wider acceptance, while an English-language article “A Prenuptial Agreement by and for the Ḥaredi Community” presents a new such agreement that has haskamot from the Ḥaredi world.Apropos of the season of Teshuva, a comprehensive article on “Rehashing The Free Will Question” examines all the explanations that have been put forth over the generations to deal with this challenging issue. In our Torah and Medicine Section “Epigenetics Revolution: The Power to Self-regulate and Control Human Behavior” issues of halakha and hashkafa are addressed, as the authors use the latest advances in science to propose “that there might be a molecular/cellular understanding, based on epigenetics, of how a lifestyle devoted to doing mitzvot can enhance this capacity to control behavior.”</p>

Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought: (Volume 27)

Bedzow, Ira

Reichman, Edward

Shapiro, Marc B.

Triebitz, Meir

Goldman, David P.

Loike, John D.

Tendler, Moshe D.

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