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NY Rabbi Unearths Lost Commentary of Ancient Scholar
« on: May 16, 2014, 02:36:37 AM »
Arutz Sheva got the chance to talk with Rabbi Allen Schwartz, who recently deciphered the previously lost commentary of a famous Jewish scholar from the Middle Ages.

Rabbi Schwartz has been the congregational rabbi of Manhattan's Ohab Zedek (OZ) synagogue since 1988, and is working on his doctoral thesis at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School.

The rabbi explained his most recent work, which unearths the once-lost commentary on Mishlei (the Book of Proverbs) by Rabbi Elazar of Worms, who was born at about 1170 CE in Germany and is widely known by his alias of "Harokeach," or "the perfumer," after one of his commentaries.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180673#.U3WwxXWx3IA



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