Repost: Megillas Antiochos: The story about the Megilla we used to lein on Channuka

Rabbi Shaul Lieberman: The conservative rosh yeshiva who wrote a Pirush on the entire Tosefta

 

The history of the Karaim: Iraq circa 800

 

Turkey, Year 1500: The Psak of the R'em regarding Kariam 

 

The origin of Megillas Antiochos: R Saadia Goan's quest to immortalize the Chashmonaim

 

Are we allowed to study the Book of the Maccabees? "Seforim chatzonim" in Halacha