Precursors of the Daf Yomi
1. Two features distinguish the Daf Yomi: The daily learning of the Blatt Gemara, resulting in the completion of the whole of Shas in a period of over seven years, […]
1. Two features distinguish the Daf Yomi: The daily learning of the Blatt Gemara, resulting in the completion of the whole of Shas in a period of over seven years, […]
The Talmud relates (Bava Metzia 84b): “Rabbi” and Rabbi Eleazar ben Rabbi Shimeon were studying. Whenever Rabbi was about to raise a question, Rabbi Eleazar would conjecture what it was. […]
Me’orah shel Torah (“The Light of the Torah”) is a collection of comments, thoughts, homilies and stories on the weekly portions of the Torah, culled from a large variety of […]
Editor of Hatzofe He forcefully voices religious Jewry’s views on current affairs and problems of the State, and in a brilliant manner, he sets forth their attitudes and demands. He […]
“We have come to express to you our thanks for your proud stand during the Pope’s visit to Israel,” we said to Chief Rabbi Nissim when we visited him in […]
Much time has passed since I had seen him last. He has not changed much—the same white flowing beard, the thick dense eyebrows, the clever eyes twinkling from behind the […]
A short time ago the 19th volume of the Talmudic Encyclopedia was published. The appearance of each new volume of this monumental work is a Yoma Tava LeRabbanan, a day […]
At The N.Y. Public Library (Conclusion) Books displayed in the second section, which is devoted to the Oral Tradition, include a volume of the first complete edition of the Babylonian […]
Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Kasovsky, who died recently at the age of eighty- eight, was one of the many great and brilliant scholars with which Jerusalem was blessed in the last […]
While still a child I had read his article on Joseph Trumpeldor, the one- armed hero of Tel Hai, who had died with these words on his lips: “It is […]