אִם תַּעְזְרֵנִי ‑ / מִי זֶה אֲשֶר יַכְשִׁילֵנִי! אוֹ תַּעְצְרֵנִי ‑ / מִי בִּלְתְךָ יַתִּירֵנִי? From Rihal’s מי יתנני. A short sample of Etti Ankri’s magnificent, exquisite, utterly perfect Rumba Flamenca version: יוסמיוסיק (the first of the “דגימות סאונד” at the foot of the article). וַאֲנִי, אָשִׁיר עֻזֶּךָ– וַאֲרַנֵּן לַבֹּקֶר, חַסְדֶּךָ: כִּי-הָיִיתָ מִשְׂגָּב לִי; וּמָנוֹס, […]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
The בעל מוסר and the Bard
Rav Shlomo Wolbe, in the midst of a characteristically eloquent and passionate – and uncompromisingly hard-line – essay insisting on the preservation of the independence and purity of the Haredi Yeshivos in Israel, lets slip a reminder that he was once (August) Wilhelm Wolbe (or Gustav Karl Friedrich Wolbe), a student at the University of […]
No Hell Below Us? The Controversy Over Rambam's Stance On Punishment In the Afterlife
Available at the Seforim blog, courtesy of Dan Rabinowitz and Eliezer Brodt.