Encyclopedias

Otzar Erkhei Hayahadut by Rabbi Joseph Grossman is a one volume Hebrew encyclopedia on Judaism, featuring about 1800 entries explaining Jewish values, laws and customs. Talmudic concepts and expressions, as […]

Between 1988 and 1998 the Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medico-Halakhaic Research, which is associated with Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical center, published the six volume Entziklpedia Hilkhatit Refuit (Encyclopedia of […]

“In about six months, the 22nd volume of the Talmudic Encyclopedia will come off the press.” Rabbi Yehoshua Hutner, the executive director of the encyclopedia told us when we visited […]

Slowly he descended from the El Al super jet. He was all smiles. In his hand he held the new eleventh volume of the Talmudic Encylopedia: his “passport” to American […]

In his introduction to the first volume of Mossad HaRav Kook’s Hebrew Encyclopedia of Hasidism, which appeared in 1960 and which featured complete bibliographies of Hasidic writings, arranged according to […]