“… kotel הַכֹּתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי appears only once (Shir Hashirim 2:9). Kotel likely has Aramaic origins, and Klein points out that the Aramaic cognate כתלא kutla is probably a loan word from the Akkadian kutallu – “back side”. It was used frequently in rabbinic Hebrew, but in modern Hebrew it’s generally reserved to describe the western retaining […]
Tiferes Yisrael R. Israel Lifschitz, Shevilei de’Rakiya,
Mishnah Tractate Rosh Hashanah with the Commentary of Rabbi Ovadiah MiBartinura Appendix. Shevilei de’Rakiya, an introduction to the principles of Rabbinical Astronomy Kuntres Magid Ha’rakia by Dr. Jeffry R. Cohen.
Maharal’s Be’er ha-Golah and His Revolution in Aggadic Scholarship
Kindle $ 0.99 This is an article from Hakirah volume 4. In the realm of classic Jewish thought, Rabbi Yehudah Liva ben Bezִalel, the Maharal of Prague, was a solitary revolutionary, especially in the elucidation of Aggadah, the nonlegal components of the Talmud and Midrash. On the one hand, he belonged to no well-defined school, […]
May my website generate revenue on Shabbos?
But income from a website is not predicated on fixed revenue—payment is received “per click” whether site traffic takes place on Shabbos or weekday. However, since the income isn’t real schar Shabbos—it’s not generated by the Shabbos observer’s work per se—it is considered mechzei k’schar Shabbos (appearing to be schar Shabbos). As such, we can […]
The Rebbe’s Nigunim
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Ben Ish Chai Birkas Horeiach
matzav.com “Two volumes of the Ben Ish Chai‘s hitherto undiscovered droshos were printed for the first time this week in two beautiful volumes titled Birkas Horeiach. The manuscript was discovered by American troops among 2,700 seforim and tens of thousands of Jewish documents in a flooded basement of Iraq’s intelligence headquarters after Saddam Hussein’s downfall […]