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03/02/2025

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23/01/2025

Thanks to Matthew Miller for hosting Rabbi Alec Goldstein to discuss his book Maimonides on the Book of Exodus!

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17/01/2025

While it is hard to feel excited about a book like this, we need thoughtful, introspective, honest, and hopeful books about October 7. Volume two of Rabbi Moshe Taragin's Dark Clouds Above, Faith Below just arrived, and orders will be shipping tomorrow.

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16/01/2025

Thank you Ben Rothke and Moshe Kinderlehrer for this wonderful review!

Reviewing: “Principled Uncertainty: A Quantum Exploration of Maimonides’ Perfect and Infinite God,” by Ari K. Tuchman. Kodesh Press. 2023. 183 pages. ISBN-13: 979-8888940136. Using a king in theological analogies has worked quite efficiently since time immemorial. When used to show power and s...

14/01/2025

Does Judaism believe in predetermination? Rabbi Reuven Boshnack, author of Pathways to the Heart and Pathways Through the Field, explores!

The Mei Ha-Shiloah’s statements on predetermination pose a theological challenge to foundational Jewish doctrines. In an analysis weaving together several Torah narratives and Izhbitzer commentaries, Reuven Boshnack proposes an empowering interpretation of the Mei Ha-Shiloah.

27/12/2024

Strategies for Resolving Ambiguities: Text and Context

Can you find the ambiguity in the following verse? Test yourself
by trying to resolve the ambiguity on your own before reading our
resolutions and see how many of the considerations that involve close reading you can anticipate.

בראשית פרק מד )כב(
וַנֹּאמֶר אֶל אֲדֹנִי לֹא יוּכַל הַנַּעַר לַעֲזבֹ אֶת אָבִיו וְעָזַב אֶת אָבִיו וָמֵת:

We said to my lord: The young man cannot leave his father;
were he to leave his father, he would die (Ge. 44:22).

Joseph threatened to imprison Benjamin. Judah, who had pledged
himself as surety for his youngest brother, approached Joseph and
reminded him that he had precipitated the crisis himself by demanding that Benjamin be brought to him despite his brothers’ plaintive arguments that to leave his father would be fatal – but to whom? Is it the young man (Benjamin) who would die, or is it his father (Jacob)?
There are two strategies we can invoke to resolve a verse’s ambiguity: textual and contextual. The textual approach utilizes the accepted rules of biblical syntax that require us to relate the ambiguous pronoun to the nearest noun with which it agrees in number and gender. The contextual approach requires us to sift through the setting and determine the likeliest referent.

-- Excerpted from Dr. Moshe Sokolow, Pursuing Peshat, p. 6

Pursuing Peshat - TOC & Sample Chapter Peshat literally means the simple, or literal, interpretation of the text. However, the definition and determination of peshat is anything but straightforward. The Sages of the Talmud and Midrash debated how to ascertain peshat. This debate continued among the....

27/12/2024

Thank you, Rabbi Hayyim Angel, for this thoughtful review of Rabbi Gil Student's new book!

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26/12/2024

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24/12/2024

Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm was one of the most important leaders of Modern Orthodox Judaism in the twentieth century. In addition to being an outstanding philosopher, sermon-writer, defender of the Torah uMadda movement, and orator, he was first and foremost a Lamdan.

Kodesh Press is exceedingly proud and humbled to publish Rabbi Lamm's Al Ha-Rishonim ve-Al Ha-Acharonim, a collection of his Hebrew articles on Gemara, Mishneh Torah, Shulchan Aruch, and halachah le-maaseh.

The printed proofs arrived and look fantastic. The final proofs will be hardcover. The final printed hardcover books are currently being printed and should be available in February. We are making them available for pre-order with promo code LammHeritage25 - at this link: https://kodeshpress.com/product/al-harishonim/

23/12/2024

Had an amazing time at SeferFest! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table and made it such a memorable event. Can’t wait to see you all at the next one!

15/12/2024

Thanks to everyone who came out last week to Rabbi Gil Student's book launch!

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08/12/2024

Rabbi Donath knows a good book when he sees one (or four..)