tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post4847609113799850553..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: Lithuania in New York - a rabbinic visit to Syracuse in 1929Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-72048027799456385762013-10-20T00:39:39.433-04:002013-10-20T00:39:39.433-04:00Thanks for the clarification Thanks for the clarification Ben Eliezernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-41941930867992046682013-10-20T00:37:47.708-04:002013-10-20T00:37:47.708-04:00His Minchat Shmuel came out first, it is his chidd...His Minchat Shmuel came out first, it is his chiddushim on shas. I came across the hard copies but I checked the online version of Otzar Hachochma and they have them both. You can view the first 40 pages for free. Check it out.Maimonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-88973798646172950832013-10-18T12:48:24.338-04:002013-10-18T12:48:24.338-04:00I couldn't find any of his seforim online or o...I couldn't find any of his seforim online or on hebrewbooks.org. Where did you access them, perhaps Otzar HaChochma? Also i read elsewhere that he also authored books entitled Minchas Shmuel- would that perhaps be in error?Ben Eliezernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-31932308182475031742013-10-18T01:34:01.173-04:002013-10-18T01:34:01.173-04:00His volume of Teshuvot called Shalmei Shmuel (whic...His volume of Teshuvot called Shalmei Shmuel (which include the responsum from R. Moshe and probably the others you mention as well) was hailed in it's time (1968) as an important new addition to the Rabbinic world for precisely the reason you mention. They were concise and cogent Halakhic formulations for the contemporary small town Rabbi.Maimonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-80135501675980678402013-10-17T20:59:42.578-04:002013-10-17T20:59:42.578-04:00Wondering if r' MacDowell possibly has any mat...Wondering if r' MacDowell possibly has any material in his archives on the Northeast NY history, I have some family from there (Albany area) ? Sure there's what to find in any locale from those times of a frummer oilam somewhat..<br />Would love to see some posts on that.<br />Thanks in advance!Ben Eliezernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-23916819487369994842013-10-17T16:02:30.100-04:002013-10-17T16:02:30.100-04:00R. Yalow has a responsum addressed to him from R. ...R. Yalow has a responsum addressed to him from R. Moshe Feinstein (recorded in Yoreh Deah II no. 107) dated 1963 about whether someone can accept a job as principal of the Talmud Torah of a Conservative synagogue. <br /><br /><br />He also submitted a RFC in the Torah Journal Hamaor in 1952 about a rabbinic colleague who could only muster up a minyan in his congregation on friday nights in the winter if services were held after sundown - whether that would be an acceptable practice.<br /><br /><br />He also wrote a responsum published in Hadarom in 1960 defending the practice of allowing a mehallel shabbat to do birkat kohanim (provided that he is not alone).<br /><br /><br />Seems like he dealt with many of the issues that a rav of a small-time community in America in the mid 20th cent. had to contend with.Jacob Ouzielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-3346448927653309522013-10-15T08:58:34.545-04:002013-10-15T08:58:34.545-04:00That would also be the visit with the (alleged) Bi...That would also be the visit with the (alleged) Bialik encounter.<br />R. Yalow (or Yaluv) was an interesting blend. He was of Lithuanian yeshiva background but was close with Chabad.<br />A responsum in משנת ר' אהרן is addressed to him but the name is misspelled.Maimonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-8843877777700682952013-10-15T05:38:06.647-04:002013-10-15T05:38:06.647-04:00There would have been the visit described in "...There would have been the visit described in "All for the Boss," right?Nachum1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-14092709453035627192013-10-14T15:24:19.720-04:002013-10-14T15:24:19.720-04:00Here's another mention, bottom right http://ww...Here's another mention, bottom right http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2017/Syracuse%20NY%20Journal/Syracuse%20NY%20Journal%201929/Syracuse%20NY%20Journal%201929%20a%20-%206189.pdf#xml=http://www.fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=16d23684&DocId=3433263&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20U%2dF%2dP&HitCount=2&hits=2a7+2a8+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdfAzi Graehttps://twitter.com/azigranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-313964288825471632013-10-14T02:46:13.745-04:002013-10-14T02:46:13.745-04:00Rabbi Yalow (middle figure) later became the fathe...Rabbi Yalow (middle figure) later became the father-in-law of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921–2011), the co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique.Dan Kleinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-40020395085961383752013-10-13T19:24:10.307-04:002013-10-13T19:24:10.307-04:00Back then meshulachim knew how to learn. I wonder ...Back then meshulachim knew how to learn. I wonder if we will eventually learn that even those great rabbinical talents spent an inordinate amount of their time fund raising.Yerachmiel Lopinnoreply@blogger.com