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Sale!Facsimile Edition This book presents the sermons of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira, The Piaseczno Rebbe, which were delivered during the Holocaust years in the Warsaw Ghetto. The second volume is a facsimile edition, with the original manuscript on one side and the detailed line-by-line presentation of the text as the Rebbe corrected it. The second volume includes the words and passages that were deleted and is printed in 4 different colors which follow the proofs and changes that the Rebbe made in the text.
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Sale!Jewish Studies 55 (2020) Full Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: Michael Schneider z"l - The Liturgical Roots of the Kabbalistic Concept of ‟Unification” Eliyahu Rosenfeld - “One Must Speak with Silence”: The Function of Silence in Virginity Claim Stories from the Babylonian Talmud Richard Hidary - The Talmud as Rhetorical Exercise: Progymnasmata and Controversiae in Rabbinic Literature Eli Gurfinkel - The Order and Structure of the List of the Maimonidean Principles: Between Form and Meaning Hagay Shtamler - “The Course of Ideas in Israel” as a Response to Wissenschaft des Judentums” Book Reviews: Uziel Fuchs - Review of Yaacov Sussmann, Oral Law Taken Literally: The Power of the Tip of a Yod, Jerusalem: Magnes, 2019 Tamar Kadari - Review of Marc Hirshman, Midrash Kohelet Rabbah 1-6: A Critical Edition, Jerusalem: Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, 2016
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Sale!Jewish Studies 56 (2021) Full Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: HEBREW SECTION Yuval Fraenkel - Between Man and Place: The Holy Man and the Temple in Stories about Ḥoni Ha`meagel, and R. Ḥanina Ben Dosa Yosef Marcus - The Status of Persons with Physical Defects in Tannaitic Literature: A New Analysis Michael Avioz - “It is Known that the Stag eats Snakes”: Examining the Scientific Knowledge Drawn Upon by Medieval Jewish Interpretations of Psalms 42 Abraham David - Flavius Josephus’s Writings in Sixteenth Century Jewish Historiography: The Case of Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah of Gedalyah Ibn Yaḥya Chen Avizohar-Hagay and Yuval Harari - ‘For a Woman in a Hard Labor’: A Compilation of Magic Recipes to Deal with Labor Difficulties Ben Landau Spinoza and the “Ecole de Paris” 161 ENGLISH SECTION Israel Knohl - The Original Version of the Priestly Creation Account and the Religious Significance of the Number Eight in the Bible and in Early Jewish MysticismIn his influential study on Jewish mysticism, Gershom
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Jewish Studies 57 (1) (2022) Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: Maya Shemuelli- An Existential View of Return and Alienation: Exegetic Examination of the Book of Ruth Ofer Elior- The Medieval Hebrew Translations of Euclid's Elements Judith Weiss- Dehiyya, Halifa, and HIbbur: Sefirotic Notions of Metempsychosis in Early Kabbalistic Literature and Some of their Reverberations Ayelet Walfish-Fraenkel- Angels, Demons, and Warlocks: The Myth of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Men in the Zohar as an Etiology of Evil Neta Dan- “22 Letters for Cursing”: Swearing and Insults in Uri Zvi Greenberg's Poetic Language
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Jewish Studies 57 (2) (2022) Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: Noam Mizrahi - The Interpretive Transmission of Isaiah as Witnessed by 4QIsag (4Q61) Yael Escojido and Emmanuel Friedheim - The Liberation of Jewish Slaves in the Letter of Aristeas as an Expression of Fear of Assimilation: A Study of the Assimilation Process Affecting Jewish Slaves in the Hellenistic Diaspora Hananel Mack - Because of Whom do the Rains Fall? Alternating Credits in Rain Stories of the Aggadah Literature Gilad Sasson - “In the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy Hands have Established”: The Homily of Mekhilta of R. Ishmael and Its Parallels in Avot de-Rabbi Natan and in Bavli Ketubbot
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Jewish Studies 58 (1) (2023) Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: 1. Haggai Mazuz - Midrashic Allusions in al-Bīrūnī’s Writings 2. Omer Michaelis - Psalms and ʿilm al-bāṭin in Baḥya ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Hearts 3. Biti Roi and Uziel Fuchs - The Use of the Introduction to the Talmud Attributed to R. Shmuel haNaggid in Tiqqunei ha- Zohar Literature 4. Amihai Radzyner - The Ring and the Lulav: The Religious Kibbutz and the Halakhic Requirements for Private Property
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Jewish Studies 58 (2) (2023) Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: 1. Brachi Elitzur and Eden HaCohen - “They Rejected the Desirable Land”: The Sin of the Spies and its Reframing in Rabbinic Literature 2. Jonathan Grossman and Jonathan Jacobs - Ambiguity on the Level of the Plain Sense in Rashi's Commentaries on the Bible 3. Dov Schwartz - Between Spain and Provence: Critical and Cultural Exploration of Rabbi Prof. B. Z. Benedict’s Oeuvre 4. Michal Aziza Ohana - A Modern Rabbinical Autobiography by R. Yeshuah Shimon Hayyim Ovadiah of Sefrou
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Sale!Midrash Eicha Zuta is a midrash Aggadah with a unique structure, which originates from the fact that it was created by conjoining two different midrashim: the first an exegesis that includes drashot of the first three verses of the Book of Lamentations, and the second an exegesis that includes drashot on verses from Nevi'im and Ketuvim.
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Critical annotated edition of part one of treatise seven of R. Levi's encyclopedia, which is devoted to an exegesis of the "Work of the Chariot". This volume also contains an edition of the surviving section of treatise five of the encyclopedia ("Divine Science") and a critical edition of the section of the poem "Battei ha-Nefesh ve-ha-Laḥashim" devoted to the "Work of the Chariot", together with the four medieval commentaries written on this section. The introduction to this volume discusses at length the interpretation of the "Work of the Chariot" from rabbinic times to R. Levi. Towards the end of the thirteenth century, the Provençal Jewish philosopher R. Levi ben Avraham wrote a unique treatise – an in-depth Hebrew encyclopedia of the sciences and of Judaism entitled Livyat Ḥen. R. Levi was known already in his lifetime as a leading exponent of the philosophical-allegorical interpretation of the Torah and of rabbinic midrash. In the Jewish part of his encyclopedia he deals with a myriad of topics, including Jewish ethics, prophecy, the reasons for the commandments, the stories of Moses and the patriarchs, the principles of faith, the Work of Creation, the Work of the Chariot, and the interpretation of rabbinic midrash and aggadah. Prior to Livyat Ḥen R. Levi wrote an encyclopedic poem of over 1000 stanzas in rhymed meter entitled Batei ha-Nephesh ve-ha-Laḥashim. This poem is devoted to the same topics in science and Judaism that are later discussed in great detail in his treatise.
