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To Strengthen The Words Of The Sages: An Analysis Of Rav Elyakum Getz’S Rappeduni Ba-Tappuḥim And Its Consonance With Seventeenth-Century Polish Rabbinic Thought, Mushka Steinmetz

Student Theses and Dissertations

Because, at these times, people are running toward the Aggadah with lovesickness, and the masses (Hamoney Am) disgrace the words of the sages in that they say “it is impossible to believe [the Aggadot] as they are told and they are nothing but words of silliness,” and they grit their teeth with questions. But God has blessed my legions in that he [through me] does not give their teeth material to chew upon. As the eyes of the God-fearers will see and rejoice. And behold, these are the beseechings of old and wise scholars, my friends and beloveds, to show …

Book Review: Cyrus The Great: Life And Lore Ed. By M. Rahim Shayegan, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Review: Fraser, David. Anti-Shechita Prosecutions In The Anglo-American World, 1855–1913: “A Major Attack On Jewish Freedoms…”, Zev Eleff

Hebrew Theological College Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Touro Torah Volume 4 Issue 11, Lander College For Women

Yearbooks and Newsletters

Divrei Torah Newsletter, Nissan Edition 5780

Book Review: Monsters And Monstrosity In Jewish History: From The Middle Ages To Modernity Edited By Iris Idelson-Shein And Christian Wiese, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

Reviewed by:

• David B. Levy

Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History: From the Middle Ages to ModernityEdited by Iris Idelson-Shein and Christian Wiese. Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xiv + 269 pp.

The past two decades have witnessed a surge of interest in monsters and the monstrous, but none from the perspective of Jewish studies except for some of the work of David Ruderman, who in a number of pioneering articles in the 1970s and 1980s analyzed early modern Jewish representations of conjoined twins, unicorns, and child …

Bibliography: Prepared For “The Commentary Of Rashi On The Humash: The First Dated Hebrew Edition Published In Reggio Di Calabria In 1475 By Rabbi Abraham Ben Garton", David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

Bibliography prepared for a permanent exhibit at Museo Castello Aragonese, Piazza Castello - 89125 Reggio Di Calabria (RC) Italy

Citation for exhibit: Penchassi Debora (Scrittrice e ricercatrice storia Ebraica Italiana). Esibizione permanente della copia anastatica “Il Commentario di Rashi al Pentateuco” Il primo libro ebraico datato, stampato in Reggio di Calabria in 1475. Lo stampatore Abraham ben Garton, il commentatore Rabbi Shlomo YItzhaki, De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo ebraista e bibliografo.

Pri Shamaryahu: A Torah Journal In Honor Of My Rebbe, Hagaon Harav Shamaryahu Meltzer Shlit"A, Avraham Friedman

Hebrew Theological College Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Pri Shilo: A Torah Journal In Memory Of My Rosh Kollel Harav Hagaon Rav Shilo Rafael Zt"L, Avraham Friedman

Hebrew Theological College Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Equality Lost: Essays In Torah Commentary, Halacha, And Jewish Thought, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Outer Limits Of Biotechnologies: A Jewish Perspective, John D. Loike, Alan H. Kadish

Office of the President Publications and Research

A great deal of biomedical research focuses on new biotechnologies such as gene editing, stem cell biology and reproductive medicine, which have created a scientific revolution. While the potential medical benefits of this research may be far-reaching, ethical issues related to non-medical applications of these technologies are demanding. We analyze, from a Jewish legal perspective, some of the ethical conundrums that society faces in pushing the outer limits in researching these new biotechnologies.

Explanatory Statements – The Theory Of Why, Aharon Grenadir

School for Lifelong Education Publications

The author explains what explanatory statements are, focusing on examples in Jewish texts.

Touro Torah Volume 2 Issue 4, Lander College For Women

Yearbooks and Newsletters

Divrei Torah Newsletter; "Tu B'Shevat"

Film Review: Haredim-Religion.Com, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author presents a review of the documentary Haredim-Religion.com.

Book Review: The Menorah: From The Bible To Modern Israel, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel.

Book Review: The Grammar Of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom And Its Users, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users.

Book Review: Spoiling The Stories: The Rise Of Israeli Women’S Fiction, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Spoiling the Stories: The Rise of Israeli Women’s Fiction.

Public Health Measures Derived From The Jewish Tradition: Ii. Washing And Cleaning, Noam Zeffren, Tova Chien, Robert Stern

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (New York) Publications and Research

The authors discuss public health measures that are described in the Torah and rabbinic literature, focusing on hand washing and cleaning.

Maimonides On Teshuvah: The Ways Of Repentance, Henry M. Abramson

Lander College of Arts and Sciences Books

Teshuvah: from the Hebrew root “to return” and often translated as “repentance,” teshuvah represents an answer to spiritual or intellectual challenge, just as a question requires a response and a home awaits a return. Maimonides on Teshuvah is a translation and commentary on The Ways of Repentance, the first comprehensive study of teshuvah in Jewish literary history.

This is the fifth edition of this work.

Torah From The Years Of Wrath 1939-1943: The Historical Context Of The Aish Kodesh, Henry Abramson

Lander College of Arts and Sciences Books

Discovered in the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira's wartime writings exemplify the faith of Hasidic Jewry under the unimaginable conditions of the Nazi occupation. Published in 1960 under the Hebrew title Aish Kodesh, the notes of Rabbi Shapira's weekly Sabbath sermons and annotations have been studied by pious Hasidim and secular academics alike, seeking his answers to the searing theological questions posed by the war. Why do the righteous suffer? Where was God during the Holocaust?

Torah from the Years of Wrath provides a new and essential scholarly contribution by placing Rabbi Shapira's writings in their …

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's Nineteen Letters On Judaism: Orthodoxy Confronts The Modern World, Moshe Y. Miller

Lander College for Women - The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School Publications and Research

The author discusses the history of Orthodox Judaism and the writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, focusing on his Nineteen Letters on Judaism.

Eleff On Katz, 'Bringing Zion Home: Israel In American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967', Zev Eleff

Hebrew Theological College Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Logic Of Concessive Statements, Aharon Grenadir

School for Lifelong Education Publications

Concessive statements appear frequently in everyday reasoning. They are one of the eleven types of statement mentioned in the Ramchal‟s Sefer Derech Tevunos. In addition, in Talmudic discussions, every statement has a presupposition (hava-amina) and a conclusion (ka mashma lan). This goal of this research is to organize the categorizations of concessive statements that are stated in the technical literature. Using the distintinction in lomdus between dechiyah (overriding a law) and hutrah (removal of a law), a novel categorization can be added, according to the type of denial of the expectation by the main clause. That is the subject of …

Book Review: In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage Of Peretz Opoczynski And Josef Zelkowicz, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author presents a review of the book In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz.

Book Review: A Jewish Life On Three Continents: The Memoir Of Menachem Mendel Frieden, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden.

Divine Providence And Free Will, Stanley Boylan

New York School for Career and Applied Studies (NYSCAS) Publications and Research

The author responds to a recent article ("God, Man, Chaos and Control: How God Might Control the Universe") by Dr. Alan Kadish. He refers to Special Divine Action, determinism, and free will, particularly as they are discussed in Judaism.

Hidden In Plain Sight: An Ur-Text Of Pirkei Avot Derived From Avot De Rabbi Nathan (Arn), Stanley Boylan

New York School for Career and Applied Studies (NYSCAS) Publications and Research

Pirkei Avot, Chapters of the Fathers, itself consists of five distinct chapters. There is a very clear order to the maxims of Pirkei Avot that appear in the first two chapters, which follow the sayings of the Fathers, organized on a chronological basis, more or less. The last (fifth) chapter of Pirkei Avot is a collection of enumerations, sayings or maxims, which provide a numerical listing or otherwise reference numbers, organized in descending order. These general organizational themes apply to the respective sections of ARNA as well, with additional enumerations which supplement those contained in Pirkei Avot in the latter …

Public Health Measures Derived From The Jewish Tradition, Noam Zeffren, Tova Chein, Robert Stern

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (New York) Publications and Research

The authors discuss public health measures that are described in the Torah and rabbinic literature.

Response To Letters To The Editor, Alan H. Kadish

Office of the President Publications and Research

The author responds to letters to the editor about his article "God, Man, Chaos and Control: How God Might Control the Universe."

Picturing Purim: Script And Image, Rhoda Terry-Seidenberg

Lander College of Arts and Sciences Publications and Research

The author discusses Jewish and Christian depictions of Megillat Esther in 17th century Holland.

Conscious Community: Paintings Inspired By The Writings Of The Piaseczno Rebbe, Atara Grenadir

Lander College of Arts and Sciences Publications and Research

The author discusses the work of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, particularly his concept of "conscious community", and presents paintings inspired by that concept.