A Note on a Yom Kippur Piyut
During the last one hundred and fifty years great rabbis and scholars wrote important and interesting notes on the prayers and Piytim, but because these were published in periodicals or […]
An Unusual Simhat Torah Custom
Prof. Moshe Bar Asher of the Hebrew University has published in recent years several studies about the particular religious customs of the Jews of southwestern France. Prof. Bar-Asher discusses the […]
New Piyutim by Rav Hai Gaon
A new collection of religious poems by Rav Hai Gaon was published recently in Israel by Yisrael Yitzhak Hasida. Rav Hai was the last of the Babylonian Gaonim, who for […]
Different Versions of the Avodah
New Volume by Lev Sameah Institute The latest publication of the Lev Sameah Institute of Jerusalem – in time for the High Holidays – is a volume featuring a new […]
The Custom of Eating Fish on Shabbat
The Midrash tells of a Roman Jew, a tailor by profession, who on the eve of Yom Kippur competed with the servant of the governor for the last fish on […]
Two Festival Customs
The Mishna (Yoma 5:1) tells us that when the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur, “He came out by the way he entered.” Just as he […]
After the Fast
Rabbi Joel Leib Herzog – the father of Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, the late Chief Rabbi of Israel relates in one of his books (Imrei Yoel, part 3, London, […]