Monday, May 05, 2008

R. Azariah De' Rossi in - or out of - Artscroll

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Here is an excerpt from a review by Zvi Zohar of Artscroll's Aleppo; City of Scholars by David Sutton ( link ): Censorship and 'Cor...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Can a woman be מדקדק?

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Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 61.24 צריך לקרות קריאת שמע בטעמים כמו שהם בתורה. הגה: אבל לא נהגו כן במדינות אלו, ומ"מ יד המדקדקים מחמירים ב...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Hebrew Artscroll gemaras as more revealing than English gemaras?

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Menachem Mendel posts on a comparison between Artscroll's English and Hebrew Talmud's treatment of an issue possibly affecting the ...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

What would R' Azaryah surely have resented? The portrayal of a controversial rabbi by Artscroll.

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From The Early Acharonim: R' Azaryah min HaAdomim (de Rossi) b. Mantua, Italy, c. 5271/1511 d. Bologna (?) Italy, 5338/1578 According to...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

When Rav Elyashiv says to print something, Artscroll prints it

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But doesn't necessarily translate it... This note appears at the beginning of the haskama (rabbinic approbation) section of some volume...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

No hint of textual criticism of the Bible in Artscroll's siddur; Psalm 34, shabbat davening's missing (?) vav.

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Alphabetical acrostics are not an uncommon form of Biblical poetry. In this form each stanza begins with a letter of the aleph beis (alphabe...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Artscroll: one should not be dogmatic.

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משנה עדיות א''ד ולמה מזכירין דברי שמאי והלל לבטלן ללמד לדורות הבאין שלא יהא אדם עומד על דבר ו “ And why do we mention the words of ...