Year: 2016

Rabbi Brand hopes and believes Donald Trump’s victory is a good sign for the Jews, see here (easy Hebrew).

Chazal in several places (such as Bava Metzia 35b) hold one should respect the wealthy. I hear Rabbi Shlomo of Radomsk did the opposite. I don’t have a source.

If true, why?

Here’s an academic blog on ancient Judaism and its “context”: Check it out!

I heard in the name of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter that “one who wishes to truly understand a page of Gemara must learn under Rabbi Chaim Leib Tiktinsky”.

I wonder if any record of Rabbi Tiktinsky’s Torah remains.