@TheOne If you live near the community he lives in, perhaps you should go to a seforim store that he [likely] goes to and ask the proprietor for ideas.
@TheOne There's a decent chance that the proprietor of a local seforim store will know something about what he's bought there before and therefore what he likes, what he has, and what he might like to have.
Jacob Weil, later known as Mahariv (Hebrew: יעקב בן יהודה ווייל) was a German rabbi and Talmudist who flourished during the first half of the fifteenth century.
== Biography ==
Of his life few details are known, but, according to Grätz, he died before 1456. He was one of the foremost pupils of Jacob Moelin (Maharil), who ordained him in the rabbinate, and authorized him to officiate in Nuremberg. Weil, however, did not avail himself of this permission lest he should offend an older scholar, Solomon Cohen, who had been appointed rabbi of that city long before. This despite the fact that Weil himself...
@TheOne I'd expect that sefarim store owners, even if they don't sell rare sefarim, would know something about them, and again, may know something about the preferences of their customers.
@TheOne I reiterate that you ought to talk to an actual expert. If you don't know much about the market or about your target's preferences, you could end up wasting a great deal of money.
@TheOne See, that you can accomplish without spending lots of money. For example, you could get some nice paper and make a high-quality printout of this. He'll be the first rosh yeshiva on his block to have it.
If I made an non-inclusive shechakol on a chicken and it is no longer in front of me. Do i need to make another shechakol on a drink that I have right after?
I remember a halacha that if the form of the food changes (solid->liquid) the original shechakol doesn't apply if the original food item is no longer in sight.
The discussion is in the Talmud Sanhedrin 22a. The background is the disagreement among the Rabbis if the Torah was originally in Ivri or Ashuri. The Talmud says that according to the view that it was in Ivri, Ashuri script was first seen when the Angel wrote it on the wall, thus the Jews were no...
I kept having to catch myself from writing "the Rembrant" ;-)