Commentators

  A very large number of supercommentaries  have been composed on Rashi’s commentary on the Torah.  The author of the supercommnetaries  include Gedolei Yisrael who felt impelled to explain and […]

(Conclusion) Abrabanel wrote his commentary on Avot at the request of his son Shemuel. In the prologue to his introductions” – which is written in very flowery langauge — Abrabanel […]

Hundreds of supercommentaries have been composed on Rashi’s commentary on the Torah. Those who wrote commentaries include leading rabbinic personalities, such as Rabbi Israel Isserlein (author of Trumat Hadeshen), R. […]

Zakhor Et Yom HaShabbat LeKadsho (Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.) This is the seventh sentence of the Ten Commandments (counting Anochi at the beginning of the first […]

Recently I received a biography of Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa, the “Netivoth” written by Abraham Yitzhak Bromberg. Bromberg, a rabbi from Poland now residing in Jerusalem, is the author of […]

Rabbi Aaron HaLevi of Barcelona (HaR’ah), one of the important medical rabbinical authorities, commentator on the Talmud and on Rabbi Isaac Alfasi’s Halakhot as well as author of other works, […]

Rabbi Yaakov Emden was both a brilliant writer and a prolific author. There were not many rabbis in his generation who wielded a pen as facile as his and wrote […]

Some time ago, “Moznaim,” published a beautiful new edition of Toledot Yitzhak, Rabbi Yitzhak Caro’s commentary on the Torah, which was first printed in Constantinople in 1518. Rabbi Yitzhak Caro, […]

From all over Spain foreign tourists flock to Granada to see the historical sights of this city. “1492 was a very important year in the history of Spain,” the tourist […]