Friday, September 30, 2005

Will Israelis topple Chomsky?

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Four Israelis might have refuted Noam Chomsky's theory of "innate grammar". Linguistics geeks read on . Oh, the irony! *L*

What does your child aspire to be?

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Wolfish Musings posts about a disconcerting encounter with his son's yeshiva principal. Wolf's son loves animals and so far aspires...
Thursday, September 29, 2005

I am not a manuscript boy...

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I have never entered the world of manuscripts (Biblical, rabbinic etc) for several reasons: lack of access, training, time--but not for lack...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

If you don't know what 'MOAG' stands for, don't bother

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Steven I. Weiss interviews R. Nosson Kamenetzky about the newly published edition of The Making of a Godol . R. Kamenetzky calls those that...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Yom Kippur without Kol Nidrei

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There is a whole infamous chapter of Jewish history surrounding the Kol Nidrei prayer with which Yom Kippur begins. To begin with, have a lo...

Hillel Halkin's review of the Etz Hayim Chumash

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It boils down to this: 'How long will you keep shifting from one opinion to the other?' Or at least that's my summary of Hillel ...

Well? Wellhausen!

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I finally read the infamous Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel by Julius Wellhausen. I bet not more than a thousand people have a...

Window into the Yeshiva, Pt. I: the 10th century

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This begins a series of posts which I hope to make consisting mainly of primary source descriptions of Yeshivoth throughout the ages. This f...
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Can you think of 1200 names?

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Came across an interesting article by Jeffrey Tigay in Bible Review (Feb. 2004) called "What's In A Name?". The article disc...

When in Rome...

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Menachem Butler mentions Artscroll's R. Nosson Scherman's talk at YU's beis midrash. Nachum Lamm recalls R. Scherman's spe...

The black hat

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A black hat is a Jewish ritual item . I feel like I should say something about group identity blah blah blah or rabbinical garb blah blah bl...

Zugt the Gemara and nothing else

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Let's speculate. Imagine that for some reason someone has enough money to publish a Talmud without any commentaries whatsoever, just the...

Are esrogim cheaper on Mt. Gerizim? ;)

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Jameel at the the Muqata has a very interesting post about a visit he took with his family on sukkos to some Samaritans who were kind enoug...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

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DovBear posts on ketav ivri . The story in his post makes his "Mood: Pessimistic", but I'm just happy that one of my geeky lo...

Conservative gedolim stories

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I found the following somewhere online: There's an amazing story about Shaul Lieberman, which made his reputation. He took a really corr...

Why not mashicha?

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Diqduq alert: When a patah is under a het that ends a word, it becomes "ach" rather than "cha". Classic examples: mash...

Azariah de' Rossi's ancient Hebrew aleph-bet

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Something that fascinates me is the errors in very old books, works that were meticulously and scrupulously researched. Why the errors? Simp...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Brave new world

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Analysis of a Google map led to the discovery of a Roman villa like this one in Parma, Italy. "Using satellite images from Google Maps ...
Monday, September 19, 2005

Five out of Thirteen ain't bad

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In July I began a series of posts on the Rambam's principles of faith, 13 in all. It kind of petered out after just 5 of them (refresh y...
Thursday, September 15, 2005

Tzenarena was for women anyway

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In this mid-19th century Romm edition of the Tzenarena Adam and Eve are dressed in fig leafs and hands. How could the venerable Romm printin...