Saul Lieberman On the Occasion of his 75th Birthday
In the spring of 1970, a team of archeologists uncovered at En-Gedi the mosaic pavement of a synagogue from the Byzantine period. The reading of the inscription in the […]
Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin
“The Hebrew word “pras” means prize, reward. It also means a part of something, a piece. On the occasion it means both—it is a prize, but it is only part […]
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, […]
The Talmudic Encyclopedia’s New Volume (19)
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 […]
Rabbi Chaim Yehoshua Kasovsky
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 […]
The Commentary of the Ramban
Rashi, Ibn Ezra and the Ramban are the great early commentators of the Pentateuch. Unlike the two others, the commentary of the Ramban is multi-dimension. It offers the student simple […]
Rabbenu Abraham of Montpellier’s Commentaries on Tractates Yevamot, Nedarim and Nazir
When the publishers of the Vilna Talmud prepared their edition, they also added some early commentaries, whose authorship had not been established. Among these were the Tosafot Had Makamai on […]
The Epistle of the Ramban
I would like to write today a few lines about the Epistle of the Humility, said to have been sent by the Ramban (Moshe Ben Nachman) to his son. […]
Twenty Five Years Sinai
The Adar issue of “Sinai” which recently reached these shores, marks the completion of the fiftieth volume of this excellent monthly, which is dedicated to Torah, Jewish scholarship and […]
Beth Habehira of Berachoth
Through the many years of the preparatory work the Institute for the Publication of the Revised Israeli Talmud has amassed in addition to a large library of printed commentaries on […]