In the Time of Coronavirus
Rosh HaShanah is referred to as a zikhron teruah, of remembrance of shofar blasts, and when it falls out on Shabbat, as it does this year, we only have the memory of the blasts, not the blasts themselves. On one level this is a loss: we will be denied the stirring, powerful sounds of the shofar.…
Rav Mordechai Yehuda Leib Winkler (1845-1932, Hungary) was a student of the Ketav Sofer, the son of the Chatam Sofer and served as the Rabbi and Rosh HaYeshiva of Mád in Northern Hungary. His book of responsa, Levushe Mordechai, contains 1555 separate responsa addressed to 174 different locations (including 4 to the United States), testifying to his popularity and importance as a posek.…
by Rabbi Hayyim Angel
Posted on September 15, 2020
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by Rabbi Jon Kelsen
Posted on September 15, 2020
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by Rabbi Yitzchak Blau
Posted on September 15, 2020
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by Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom
Posted on September 15, 2020
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by Nechama Price
Posted on September 14, 2020
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by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on September 14, 2020
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by Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib-Smokler
Posted on September 14, 2020
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by Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz
Posted on September 14, 2020
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by Rabbanit Sara Wolkenfeld
Posted on September 11, 2020
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Rabbi Yitzhak Weiss hy”d was a highly-regard Hungarian rabbi before the Second World War. He served as the Rav of Odleburg and then of Verbo. In his time, he was well known for the breadth of his knowledge; his teacher, the Shevet Sofer, is said to have referred to him as “my very own bookcase.”…