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Contemporary Amalek - Hirhurim - a blog post by Rabbi Gil Student explaining Rav Soloveitchik's controversial view that the Nazis were considered Amalekites "Amalek" (Passages 1999) A discussion with R. Eliezer Breitowitz & Dr. Elliott Malamet
The first explicit reference to the practice of avoiding Torah study appears in Rabbi Yair Bacharach's Mekor Chaim, composed sometime between 1660 and 1692 [8], where he wrote “and there is a custom of abstaining from study on the evening of that man's [i.e., Jesus'] holiday."
Gil Ofer Student (born August 8, 1972) is the former Book Editor of the Orthodox Union's Jewish Action magazine, former Managing Editor of OU Press, [1] and an Orthodox Jewish blogger who writes about the interface between different facets of Judaism, specifically Orthodox Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism.
This would be at least partialy relevant to the source and at least with regard to unmarried women prove that there have been clear shifts in the rabbinic oppinion, and as to our present topic insinuate that according to him there would be no problems with hirhurim at all with unmarried women and therefore one may indeed touch them on that ...
Yechiel Michel Epstein was born on 24 January 1829 in Babruysk, Russian Empire (presently in Belarus) to Aharon Yitzchak and Rashka Epstein.His father Aharon Yitzchak Epstein was a builder and contractor who spend much of his time traveling for his work, which were often projects of the Czarist government.
The Southern Wall is 922 feet (281 m) in length, and which the historian Josephus equates as being equal to the length of one furlong (Greek: stadion). [1] Herod's southern extension of the Temple Mount is clearly visible from the east, standing on the Mount of Olives or to a visitor standing on top of the Temple mount as a slight change in the plane of the eastern wall, the so-called ...
Rosh Pina (Hebrew: ראש פינה) is a lay-led Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue that meets in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States.
Date: 14th day of Adar (in Jerusalem and all ancient walled cities, 15th of Adar): 2023 date: Sunset, 6 March – nightfall, 7 March: 2024 date: Sunset, 23 March – nightfall, 24 March