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Chasam Sofer Biography
If podcasts are your thing, Jewish History Soundbites has a (currently) 5-part series on the Chatam Sofer. You can find it here.
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Chasam Sofer Biography
Artscroll not so long ago brought out a very comprehensive biography by Yisroel Besser.
The blurb there reads:
One hundred and eighty years after his passing, he stands tall, a leader for eternity.
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Sefer on the chagim/moadei Hashana
This doesn't discuss every month but it does the main ones, Nissan and Elul. I highly recommend L. Etzot. It has a section Moadei haShem which summarizes all the practical points about the times, from ...
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Modern/ legible edition of Chik’kei Lev
A high-quality, legible (but not modern) scan can be had at the National Library of Israel.
Here is the general listing for the sefer.
Here is Volume 1 of the scan and here is Volume 2.
There are also ...
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Does anyone know from which book this excerpt comes from?
I've just discovered that this excerpt is from the book The Story of Our Lives: An Epic Quest For The Soul of Our Tradition by R' Yaakov Klein.
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Content of the various sets of Chabad books
Likkutei Sichos is a collection of select essays on specific topics in Torah, written up by a committee of chassidim, based on talks by the Rebbe over the years and edited by him. They were originally ...
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Who is the author of this book - Sefer Maayan Moshe
R' Shatz has undertaken to no longer publish this sefer. In it's stead he released Tarshish Shoham Veyashfeh which is an updated and revised version.
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Are the stories from Chashukei Chemed real?
Rav Osher Weiss has stated in public that many of the cases are theoretical and never happened. I personally think that is obvious based on the nature of the questions he deals with.
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