This volume, sixth in a series of studies by Prof. Yehuda Friedlander in modern Hebrew literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deals with the cultural-literary uniqueness of the debate between rabbis and maskilim in Lithuania in the ninetee

Special Issue on Lithuanian Kabbalah from the Vilna Gaon to Rabbi Kook, co-edited by Raphael Shuchat

This book includes articles on Rashi and his disciples that expand on the study of Rashi – questions of interpretation, thought, law, language, poetry and history associated with the works of Rashi and his disciples.

The Vilna Gaon's writings are all commentaries, thus making it difficult to assess his views on the central issues of Judaism. Now, for the first time, one of the more controversial issues in the Gaon's writings has been decoded: his views on the redempti

Scroll of Secrets (Megillat Setarim) is the hidden Messianic vision of R. Nahman of Bratslav. The Scroll was concealed for two centuries, and was known only to a select individual in each generation. Despite its being written in encoded language, with acr