Vitoria in Spain
Bilboa in the Basque country is a large and beautiful city, but I spent only one day there. In fact, I had come the long way from Madrid, not to […]
A Minyan in Cordoba
Cordoba. There was a period in the Middle Ages when Cordoba on the Guadalquivir was the largest city in Europe. It was the capital of Moslem Spain and had a […]
Sefer HaManhig
Several months ago there appeared in Israel a new edition of Abraham ben Nathan HaYarhi’s “Sefer HaManhig” an important medieval work on Halacha. Abraham ben Nathan, who was a contemporary […]
Rabbi Symcha Elberg’s ‘Imrei Symcha’ (Vol. 2)
“In Jewish Warsaw the approach of Pesach was felt already in the cold and frosty nights of Tevet, several months before the advent of the festival. The climate was still […]
Rabbi E.E. Dessler’s Novellae on the Talmud
“The publication of this volume makes it evident to all that its author was not only a brilliant exponent of the Mussar movement, but was equally outstanding in the exposition […]
Zvi Raphaely, Kabbalist and Artist
The walls were studded with canvasses: Israeli landscapes, Jerusalem street scenes, a general view of the Holy City, Hasidim dancing, musicians, flowers. Extraordinary pictures by an unusual artist. Zvi Raphaely […]
The Rabbi Abramsky Memorial Volume
Last week was the third anniversary of the death of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky, one of the rabbinic luminaries of our generation. Rabbi Abramsky studied at Telz and other Yeshivas and […]
The Late Rabbi Shilo Raphael Z”L (10th Yahrzeit)
Several weeks ago, on the 3rd of Kislev, we commemorated the tenth anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shilo Raphael, who had served as head of a Jerusalem rabbinical court […]
The Late Rabbi Shilo Raphael, Z”L (1994)
Rabbi Shilo Raphael, Av Beth Din of the Jerusalem Rabbinical District Court, died on the 3rd of Kislev (6th of November) at the young age of 54. He was buried […]
A. Surasky’s New Book on “Pirkei Avot”
The reading of Pirkei Avot on Sabbath is an old custom. It goes back to the period of the Geonim and may even predate it. The custom varies in different […]