Like the Perpetrators of the 1994 Buenos Aires Bombing, Alberto Nisman’s Murderers Are Going Free
An Argentine lawyer investigated the crime and the coverup, and met his death.
January 20, 2022
Ninety Lost Pages of the First Printing of a Seminal Work of Jewish Law Have Been Found
The Arba’ah Turim incunabulum.
For traditional Jews around the world, the central code of Jewish law is the 16th-century Shulḥan Arukh, composed by the great Spanish-born sage Joseph Karo. This work is a consolidation of Karo’s commentary on an earlier work, the Arba’ah Turim (“Four Rows”) of Jacob ben Asher (ca. 1269-1343), a German sage who immigrated to Christian Spain with his father—himself a great Talmudist—and embodied a synthesis of Ashkenazi and Sephardi schools of learning. Part of this work was recently acquired, in the rarest of forms, by the National Library of Israel. The Jerusalem Post reports:
January 20, 2022
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Ninety Lost Pages of the First Printing of a Seminal Work of Jewish Law Have Been Found
The Arba’ah Turim incunabulum.