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>'Mah Nishtannah'
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Year:
2016
Catalog number :
45-005730
ISBN:
978-965-493-871-6
Pages:
652
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'Mah Nishtannah'

The Passover Night in the Sages' Discourse

Synopsis
The book Mah Nishtannah: The Passover Night in the Sages' Discourse seeks to provide novel answers, based upon up-to-date methods of scholarly Talmud analysis, to ancient questions raised by the Seder Night, a night at the focus of Jewish culture from time immemorial. The book analyzes the focal points of this night – the Passover meal and its commandments on one hand, and the foundation of the Haggadah and the development of its design and history of its structure on the other.
Reviews

"He relentlessly deploys textual criticism, contextual interpretation, and terminological precision in order to strip these fascinating but unfounded suggestions away from the sources. The essence of Henshke’s approach is the distinction between different chronological periods, and between textual statements from different periods or different perspectives that were compiled together into the multi-layered corpus of rabbinic literature." - Association of Jewish Libraries, by Pinchas Roth, September 2017

"Professor Henshke shows a command of two worlds which some feel cannot go together, the Yeshivah and Academicworlds. He learned by various greats of the past including R' Yisroel Gustman, R' Binyamin Ze'ev Benedict, and R' Shlomoh Fisher, has served as a maggid Shiur and is extremely familiar with the Yeshivisheh Torah in all areas, including Kodoshim and Taharos. His works shows an incredible command of the relevant sources, from Chazal and onwards, Geonim, Rishonim and Achronim. At the same time he shows the same impressive breadth in academic literature as well as deep understanding and utilization of the various methodologies..." the Seforim blog, by Eliezer Brodt, March 2016