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But either way, the question stands: are there sources that indicate how old Eliezer ben Hyrcanus was when he died, and when in history that occurred? …

According to Wikipedia, the Tosfos to Moed Qatan were written by a student to a certain Rabbi Yitzhak. Do we know anything about who he was or where he lived? Specifically, to whom is he referring in …

I call it curious, since it takes a fairly creative reading of history to see the war as having begun on a single date in particular, and specifically on the 1st of August, 1914. …

According to Negaim 3:1, the laws of negaim only apply to Jews (הכל מטּמאין בנגעים חוץ מגוים), but according to Negaim 2:1 they apply to people from Germany (גרמני) and Ethiopia (or Numibia, etc; ״כוש …

Your question, as it is currently phrased, does not have an answer. You want Frankish halakhic sources from the 8th century?? They don't exist. In fact, good luck finding a Western European halakhic s …

First of all, it's worth noting that, with only certain key exceptions, there weren't really any yeshivas in Eastern Europe before Volozhin, their having been replaced by the beis midrash, and by a sy …

If you wish to see a printed source for the foregoing, cf: Menachem Elon, Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles (4 vols; trans. Bernard Auerbach and Melvin J. …

If, in the time of the moshiach, people are to be punished for the things that they had done, those things may not have yet transpired in human history - certainly not at the time of the prophet, and perhaps …

The best (English language) source, in my opinion, is Hyam Maccoby's Judaism on Trial: Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1982; later adapted as …

of relevance in this article as well, which might also be of interest to you: Aron Rodrigue, "The Ottoman Diaspora: The Rise and Fall of Ladino Literary Culture", in Cultures of the Jews: A New History …

Actually, there's no source for this story at all, save a desire to believe that the ordering of books within Tanakh was deliberate, rather than simply retroactive. The gemara (Bava Batra 15a-b) speak …

Nobody knows for certain who authored Sefer Kol Bo (ספר כל-בו), and various theories exist as to who, and when, it might have been. (For a brief example of such theories, see here). Likely it was in t …

Tractate Sofrim (14:14) records two opinions that concern the wearing of a head covering during the Shema: there are those who say that it is not necessary, and there are those who say that it is nece …

The Babylonian system derives its name from its place of origin, but it was also found well out of Babylon. In Yemen, for instance, manuscripts following this system have been used up to this d …

The first idea was stated in the name of the Gra by R' Hayyim of Volozhin, who mentioned it to Rav Yitzhak Margoliot, who mentioned it to R' Shmuel ben Avraham of Slutzk, who published it in a collect …