Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 30, Naso
- Sefas Tamim
- Jul 9
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June 7, 2025; 11 Sivan, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara
Rabbi Akiva Eiger ZT”L (1761- 1837), who served as Chief Rabbi of Posen, was one of the most respected Talmudic scholars of his generation. His commentaries on the Talmud were studied throughout Europe and continue to be studied today.
Once, after his annotations had been printed and distributed in a new edition of the Talmud, Rabbi Eiger discovered that he had made an error in one of his Talmudic comments. Even though the new editions of the Talmud had already been bound and sold, making corrections extremely difficult and costly, Rabbi Eiger insisted on fixing his mistake...