A close student of R Yehonasan Eibeschutz, Bumsla nevertheless got along with the Noda BiYhudah, and the latter had a “prophecy” about Bumsla which he shared at the latter’s funeral.
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After the Great Fire in Frankfurt: Battling the Sabbateans (Nechemiah Chayon). The very famous (and romantic!) Ethical Will
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Did he cause the Great Fire of 1711 which burned down the entire Jewish Ghetto of Frankfurt? Was it a case of קַבָּלָה מַעֲשִׂית gone awry?
On his Yahrtzheit, some thoughts on – How come the Ari's bona fides was never challenged? And why did the רבונו של עולם choose to reveal more about himself in the 16th century than any other? And why did the Arizal get "prophecies" in Egypt, of all places?
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1.) Azariah Figo 2.) Ramchal 3.) R' Yaakov Ettlinger 4.) R' SR Hirsch
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Many of the ideas in the מוֹרֵה נְבוֹכִים, הַכּוּזָרִי, הַחוֹבוֹת הַלְּבָבוֹת, יַד רמ”ה, הָעִקָּרִים, וְכוּלְהוּ actually were already written in the אֱמוּנוֹת וְדֵעוֹת
A South African "Jewish Jew" who went to wartorn Ukraine in 1920, then in the midst of massacres of Jews, and brought 200 Jewish orphans to safety in South Africa
The Famous Trial in 1849: Is conversion to Judaism an indication of mental insanity?
What was the historical context for Saadia's prediction that משיח would come in 965 CE?
The Caliph gave the Reish Gelusah a "present" in the form of the daughter of the Persian Emperor. The Halachic debate re: what happened next.
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The extraordinary combination of גְּאוֹנוּת in lomdus in the Golden Age of Pilpul in the Golden Age of the Jews in he Kingdom of Poland , fascination with mathematics, and the Kabbalistic application of math to the deeper reading of the תּוֹרָה בִּכְתָב וְתוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֹּה
Chaim and Yehoshua Reitzes endured horrible tortures rather than save themselves by conversion
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His famous disputation with the Frankist Heretics, who claimed that the Jews who follow the Talmud murder Christians and use their blood for Passover purposes. He tore into them , calling a spade a spade!
The World stands on תּוֹרָה, עֲבוֹדָה, וּגְמִילוּת חֲסָדִים. Each one individually? Or the combination of all three?
The Underside of Jewish Kehilah politics in the “Old World”
One of the Greatest Gedolim of the 18th century. The Noda B’Yehudah and the Hafla’ah sent him THEIR שְׁאֵלוֹת! Classic lomdus of the “Old School”
TThe Rambam in the Mishneh Torah on the correct hashkafah re: Korbanos and other Mitzvos that make no sense. The remarkable anguish of King David re: such matters
Famous Responsa re: Adultery and Divorce
A great Talmid Chacham and Mekubal who suffered from secular Zionist persecution in the 1940s. The complicated story of Yemenite Jewry in the first half of the 20th century.
