Thursday, September 25, 2008

Another face: R' Chiyos

I'd never seen a portrait of R. Zvi Hirsch Chajes other than the one in the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia:



Here's another (or, perhaps, a better quality version of the same):

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Rambama"n's glasses



From here.

By the way, to all those who are concerned - I'm fine, I've just been too busy to really blog. Thanks for asking. Hopefully I'll have more time - the blog is not shutting down, either overtly or due to benign neglect.