אישים ושיטות

Of late several harsh criticisms have been directed against the works of R’ Baruch Halevi Epstein including accusations plagiarism and of ...

ברכות ז: -אמר ר' יותנן משום ר' יוסי.... בקש (משה) להודיעו דרכיו של הקב"ה ונתן לו שנא' (שמות לג) הודיעני נא את דרכיך אמר לפנ...

I'd like to call attention to a rather important source that R' Chaim Rapoport rather disingenuously ignores in his recent (altogeth...

I recall reading in his biography (by Y. Rosenblum. I regret that I have as yet been unable to obtain The Making of a Gadol) that R' Yaa...

Mekorei Minhagim The final aspect of R’ Yaakov’s work that we will discuss here is his analysis on the sources of certain Minhagim. One can ...

Etymology One can find a list of some words that R’ Yaakov analyses in the index of the expanded edition of Emet L’ Yaakov on Chumash. For n...

History In his Haskamah [1] to the בינו שנות דור ודור of R’ Nosson Dovid Rabinowitz, R’ Yaakov praises the fact that “now Bnei Torah will ha...