The Samson Judaica Library has a total of 37 categories of books, in addition to many Hebrew works. We are delighted to present here the categories:
Categories
- Scriptures
- Chmash
- Basic Judaiam
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Catalogues
- Encyclopedia
- Jewish Thought
- Judaism and Science
- Anti-Semitism
- Prayer
- Jewish Ethics
- Jewish Law
- Festivals
- Pesach
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- Kashrut
- Jewish Woman
- Kabbalah
- Hasidism
- Relationship and Parenting
- Life Cycle
- Talmud
- Midrash
- Jewish Art
- Hebrew
- Literature
- Children
- Inspiration
- Yiddish
- Israel
- Biographies
- History
- Ancient History
- Middle and Modern History
- Holocaust
- Holocaust Biographies and Memoirs
- Jews around the World
Hebrew Works
Rambam - Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon
Shulchan Aruch - Rabbi Joseph Kairo
Tur Shulchan Aruch
Chidushei Rabbi Akiva Eger
Sukas Dovid – Rabbi Dovid Kwiat – Mir
Sfas Emes – Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib of Gur
Nachlas Dovid – Rabbi Dovid Tevil, chief rabbi of Minsk & student of Rabbi Chaim of Velozhin
Kovetz Shiurim – Rabbi Elchonon Bunim Wasserman, Head of Yeshiva Beranowitz, Poland, killed in the Holocaust
Tzofnas Paneach – Rabbi Yosef Rozen, chief rabbi of Dvinsk
Shev Shma’atsa – Rabbi Aryeh Leib Hakohen Sha”n
Chidushei Haramban – Nachmanides, Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman
Chidushei Harashba – Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderes
Shitah Mekubetzes – Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenazi, renowned rabbi in Egypt
Aruch Laner – Rabbi Yakov Yukav ben Aharon Etlinger
Ketzos Hachoshen – Rabbi Aryeh Leib Heller ben Yosef Hakohen
Sharei Yashar – Rabbi Shimon Yehudah Shkop
Torah Ohr – Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad movement
Likutei Sichos - The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi MM Schneersohn
Chidushei HaRan – Rabeinu Nisim ben R’ Reuven
Shelo”h, Shnei Luchos Habris – Rabbi Yeshaya ben Avraham HaLevi Hurwitz
Penei Yehoshua – Rabbi Yakov Yehoshua, chief rabbi of Levov, Berlin, Mitz and Frankfurt
Nesivos Mishpat – Rabbi Yakov, chief rabbi of Lisa
Birchas Shmuel – Rabbi Boruch Dov Libavitz, head of Slebodka Yeshiva
Ba’al Haturim – Rabbi Yakov ben Asher
Rashi – Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki
Lekutei Sichos – Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Meam Loez – Rabbi Yakov Culi (1689-1732)
Beis Habechirah lerabeinu HaMeiri – Rabbi Menachem ben Shlomo leBeis Meir
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Responsa collection of Rabbinical legal decisions from 13th century until 21st century at the Samson Judaica library
Maharam M’Rotenberg (5 volumes)
Meir of Rothenburg (c. 1215 – 2 May 1293) was a German rabbi and poet, a major author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud. He is also known as Meir Ben Baruch, the Maharam of Rothenburg
Sha’alot Ut’shuvot Rashba (5 volumes)
Shlomo ben Aderet (1235 — 1310) was a Medieval rabbi, halakhist, and Talmudist. He is widely known as the Rashba, the Hebrew acronym of his title and name: Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet. The Rashba was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1235. He became a successful banker and leader of Spanish Jewry of his time. He served as rabbi of the Main Synagogue of Barcelona for 50 years. Among his teachers was Nachmanides. The Rashba was considered an outstanding rabbinic authority, and more than 3,000 of his responsa are known to be extant. Questions were addressed to him from Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, and even from Asia Minor. His responsa, which cover the entire gamut of Jewish life, are concise and widely quoted by halakhic authorities.
Maharam Schik (3 Volumes)
Rabbi Moshe Schik (1807–1879) was one of the most well-known rabbis in Hungary. He was more commonly known as the Maharam Schik, Maharam being the phonetic pronunciation of the acronym for Moreinu Harav Rabbi Moishe, which means "Our Teacher the Rabbi Moshe" in Hebrew. He was born in Slovakia, the son of Rabbi Joseph Schick. The Schicks were descended from Rabbi Hanoch Heinich Schick of Shklov, a relative of the Gaon of Vilna, and Rabbi Yomtov Lipman Heller, and Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen of Padua, the "Maharam Padua". At the age of 11, the Maharam Shik was sent to study with his uncle, Rabbi Yitzchak Frankel, president of rabbinical court in Regensdorf. When he was 14, he was sent to learn under the Chasam Sofer in Pressburg. After he got married, he was appointed Rabbi of Yeregin in 1838, where he opened a yeshiva and in 1868 he became Rabbi of Chust, Ukraine, and moved his 800-student yeshiva there. Maharam Shik authored responsa containing over 1000 discussions with Jews of his time, on all issues of life, and died in Chust in 1879.
Avnei Neizer (4 volumes)
Rabbi Avrohom Bornsztain (1838–1910), born in Bendin, Poland, was a leading decisor of Jewish law in late-nineteenth-century Europe and founder of the Sochatchover Hasidic dynasty. He is known as the Avnei Neizer ("Stones of the Crown") after the title of his posthumously-published set of Torah responsa.
Imrei Yosher (3 volumes)
Rabbi Meir Arik, (1855-ca. 1925) who lived in Tarnow, Galicia, was president of the rabbinical courts of Yazlevits and Buczacz, Poland.
Be’er Moshe (4 volumes)
Rabbi Moshe Yechiel Epstein, the Rebbe of Ozhrov, lived 1889-1971 in Ozhrov, New York, and Israel. Rabbi Moshe Yechiel Epstein was known as one of the great Torah scholars of his generation. His encyclopaedic series of Torah commentaries entitled Eish Dos (11 volumes) and Be'er Moshe (12 volumes) are renowned for their depth. They were considered to be just a small sample of the Rebbe's erudition. In 1968 Rabbi Epstein was a recipient of the Israel Prize in the category of Torah literature.
Chelkas Yaakov - Rabbi Yaakov Briesh (3 volumes)
Rabbi Briesh was president of the rabbinical court in Zurich, Switzerland, for 42 years until he passed away in 1977. His responsa were one of the first to be published after the war in 1951. He was formerly President of the rabbinical court in Disburg, Germany.
Igrot Moshe (9 volumes)
Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986), born in Udza, near Minsk, Belarus, was a Lithuanian rabbi, scholar and posek, who was world-renowned for his expertise in Jewish law and was regarded by many as the de facto supreme Halakhic rabbinic authority for Orthodox Jewry of North America.
Minchas Yitzchok (10 volumes)
Dayan Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss (1902-1989), also known as the Minchas Yitzchak, was a prominent Dayan, Halachic authority and Talmudic scholar. He was a world-renowned expert on Jewish religious law. He was born in the town of Dolyna in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, the son of a distinguished Chassid, Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Weiss, later spiritual leader of the Hungarian Jewish community in Munkacs. Around 1949, Rabbi Weiss emigrated to Manchester, England, where he was soon appointed Dayan and Av Beth Din. Rabbi Weiss maintained warm relations with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Minchas Shlomo (3 volumes)
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910 - 1995) was a renowned Rabbi, Posek (decisor of Jewish law) and Rosh Yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Israel. He became the pre-eminent Halachic decisor of his time in Israel, respected by all streams of Orthodox Judaism. He was unique in his approach to Halacha through thought experiments.
Shevet HaLevi (11 Volumes)
Rabbi Shmuel (HaLevi) Wosner is a prominent rabbi and posek (decisor of Jewish law) living in Bnei Brak, Israel. Rabbi Wosner was born in 1913 in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of several works of Jewish law, such as Shevet HaLevi ("The Tribe of Levi"), a comprehensive series of Halachic rulings on Jewish laws comprising of ten volumes and several other Torah books all bearing the same name.
Tzitz Eliezer (21 volumes)
Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg (1915 - 2006) was known as the Tzitz Eliezer after his monumental halachic treatise Tzitz Eliezer that covers a wide breadth of halacha, including Jewish medical ethics, as well as ritual halachic issues from Shabbat to Kosher dietary laws. He was born in Jerusalem in 1915 and died there on November 21, 2006. He was a leading rabbi and a dayan (rabbinical judge) on the Supreme Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem and was considered an eminent authority on medical halacha. He was the rabbi of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. His halachic opinions are valued by many rabbis across the religious spectrum. His major workTzitz Eliezer, is an encyclopedic treatise on halachic questions, viewed as one of the great achievements of halachic scholarship of the 20th century.
Yabia Omer (10 volumes) & Yechavei Da’ath (6 volumes)
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (born Abdullah Youssef, 1920 Basra, Iraq) is a Sephardic rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and recognized Jewish legal (halachik) authority. Rabbi Yosef's halakhic responsa are highly regarded and are considered binding in many Mizrahi (Sefardic) communities. His two major responsa have been published, Yabia Omer and Yechavei Da'ath (both titles are references to Psalm 19).
Ma’aseh Choshev (4 volumes)
In-depth halachic analysis — by means of sheelot uteshuvot (halachic questions and answers) — regarding practical, actual, new problems arising from scientific and technological development in the fields of electricity, electronics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, etc. The work is published by The Institute for Science and Halacha in Jerusalem, which is dedicated to the development of a sound halachic base for dealing with all matters connected with science and modern technology. The founder of the institute is Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Halperin.