About a month and a half ago, we referenced the widespread rumors that in Rav Shlomo Wolbe’s youth he had been known as Gustav Karl Friedrich Wolbe, and had attended the University of Berlin. Two weeks ago, Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz told the story thus: Let me share a story I read about Gustav, a student …
Monthly Archives: October 2010
One Who Loves Does Not Hate
Grounds For Divorce We began this Zeman by learning the Talmudic / Halachic discussion of the legitimate causes for divorce; there are apparently three1 Tannaitic opinions: מתני’ בית שמאי אומרים לא יגרש אדם את אשתו אלא אם כן מצא בה דבר ערוה שנאמר כי מצא בה ערות דבר ובית הלל אומרים אפילו הקדיחה תבשילו שנאמר …
Wives and Daughters and Sisters and Mothers
Anne Brontë: I was too late for tea; but my mother had kindly kept the teapot and muffin warm upon the hobs, and, though she scolded me a little, readily admitted my excuses; and when I complained of the flavour of the overdrawn tea, she poured the remainder into the slop-basin, and bade Rose1 put …
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