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Texts of Maharal’s Commentary on Shas
You can find it on HebrewBooks. (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4)
The work is known as Chiddushei Agados Maharal MiPrague.
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Moshiach will be groomed in Arabia
The Maharal is explicitly referring to a well-known aggadah about the birth of Mashiach after the destruction of the Temple. In the Yerushalmi his birth was stated to be in Birat Malka of Beit Lechem ...
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Maharal on lentils
If you look at Rashi in full there he goes on to explain the connection:
וְלָמָּה עֲדָשִׁים? שֶׁדּוֹמוֹת לְגַלְגַּל, שֶׁהָאֲבֵלוּת גַּלְגַּל הַחוֹזֵר בָּעוֹלָם
And why lentil? Because they are ...
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Reference for a quote from the Maharal about how man is an upside-down tree
It is in Netzach Yisroel 7:26
כי באמת האדם נקרא "עץ השדה", דכתיב (דברים כ, יט) "כי האדם עץ השדה", רק שהוא אילן הפוך, כי העץ שורשו למטה תקוע בארץ, ואילו האדם שרשו למעלה, כי הנשמה ...
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Netzach Yisroel by the Mahral
Netzach Yisrael is a philosophical work on exile and redemption written as part of the Maharal's series on Jewish holidays to correspond to Tisha B'Av. It is at a fairly advanced reading/...
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Does Maharal, Maharsha or Zohar discuss the concept of how שָׁלוֹם, שְׁלֵמוּת, שָׁלֵם are associated with one another?
The Maharal indeed says in Nesivos Olam that word Shalom comes from the word Shleimus. This is a major recurring theme in the Maharal
Here is the beginning of the first Perek of Nesiv Hashalom in ...
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First usage of golem to refer to a man-made humanoid
The usage of ‘golem’ referring to a humanoid created by humans appears in a late 12th century-early 13th century commentary to Sefer Yetzirah by R. Eleazar of Worms (Commentary, p. 15b s.v. העוסק) :
...
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Be'er Hagoleh- looking to buy
This is the best version of the Be'er Hagolah with much needed explanations from Rav Yehoshua Hartman Shlit"a.
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Where to find the book 'Hoshen ha-Mishpat shel ha-Kohen ha-Gadol' by Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg?
It's available in Hebrew on Hebrewbooks. Here's a link:
https://hebrewbooks.org/21491
And some interesting background info on the story and on Rabbi Rosenberg by Rabbi Prof. Shnayer Leiman:
https://...
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18,000 worlds under the protection of Hashem!
This subject matter is explored by Rav Aryeh Kaplan in The Aryeh Kaplan Reader.
If you look at the preview - he has a chapter entitled On Extraterrestial Life (p.170). Based on Rav Chasdai Crescas (in ...
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Who was the Maharal influenced by in his seforim?
Rabbi Yehoshua Hartman, in the article called "The Maharal: His Approach, His Innovations and His Position as a Teacher of Posterity", originally posted in the fall 2009 issue of "...
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English translations of the Maharal's Netzach Yisrael
I'm not sure if you're looking for a printed version, but sefaria has a community-made translation available here:https://www.sefaria.org/Netzach_Yisrael.1.4?ven=Sefaria_Community_Translation&vhe=...
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Introduction to the Maharal
I would recommend reading the essays written by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, there are 47 parashot that are covered in these lessons.
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein explains on the study of the Maharal's ...
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First usage of golem to refer to a man-made humanoid
The earliest source I have found is in Zalman Zvi Aufhausen's יודישר טירייאק (published in 1615) on page 7b:
אביר אונזרי גולמיים אין דיזן לאנדן מכין מיר ניט אויש ליימן זונדר
אויש מוטר לייב ווערין ...
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Artscroll translation of Maharal's Be'er Hagolah
It is not an unabridged translation. As the author writes in the introduction
Maharal's style is individualistic and difficult to penetrate. He
uses terms and phraseology that can be seen in so many ...
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Source for a Maharal I learned a while back...help
Found it! באר הגולא, באר הראשון, תלונה השלישי:
Context and summary: Maharal is defending what the people of his time and earlier times claimed: that the Rabbis of the Talmud engaged in Bal Tosif by ...
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Zohar and Maharal on the soul and face
Rav Yitzchok Hutner says that the פנים (face) reveals what is בפנים (inside). The face reveals your inner emotions. Rav Hutner was an avid scholar on the Maharal's works.
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Maharal on Eruv Tavshilin
At least one instance is in Netzach Yisrael Ch. 46:
ויש לפרש כי זה ענין מצות עירוב תבשילין, שיום טוב הסמוך לשבת מניח עירוב תבשילין מבעוד יום קודם יום טוב, ואז אף ביום טוב יכול לתקן מאכלו לשבת. כי ...
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Editions of Gur Aryeh by the Maharal
There is a publisher called Tiferes (they publish all of the Maharal's seforim, they're black and electric-blue). They make two versions of the Gur Aryeh, one is just the plain text of the Gur Aryeh ...
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Incorporeal Resurrection
I don’t believe the Maharal is necessarily stating that one does not have a guf/body in olam habah. I believe he is stating that his body is elevated and removed to the greatest extent from all its ...
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The Epistemic Ramchal v. Maharal Debate - Does the Opposite of a Thing Define it?
The Ramchal and Maharal are speaking to the same point but from different perspectives. From our Human perspective, we can only perceive or understand something truly by virtue of its opposite. Being ...
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Maharal of Prague on 10 Lost Tribes of Israel
Perhaps you are referring to the passage in Netzach Yisrael Chapter 34 where he explains that the ten tribes will only return during the final ingathering of the exiles, and that we're not concerned ...
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Maharal on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
The Maharal doesn't have any book entirely dedicated to these two holidays, but his short Derasha for Shabbat Teshuva is about Yom Hakkippurim.
For more, you might also be able to look through his ...
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Incorporeal Resurrection
Hattip @wfb who dug up this site, which presents (amongst many other relevant source texts) other relevant passages of the Maharal, that do together certainly sound like they are describing an ...
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Netzach Yisroel by the Mahral
I have it it has 2 major sections, the first part is about the destrouction of the 1st and 2nd beis hamikdash's, and the 2nd part is about Geulas Maschiach. The Maharal zt"l seforim are pretty hard to ...
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