Mnachem (Mendel) HaKohen Risikoff (1866–July 28, 1960), was an orthodox rabbi in Russia and the United States, and a prolific author of scholarly works, written in Hebrew.[1] Risikoff used a highly stylized and symbolic pen-name, יאמהדנונחהים, made up of the Hebrew letters of his first name, the Hebrew word for Lord, and the Tetragrammaton, one of Judaism's terms for God. It is not clear whether this pen name was used in conversation, or whether it was used only in his writings.
^Portions of his book, HaKohanim vHaLeviim (The Priests and the Levites), Shulsinger Bros. Linotyping & Publishing Co., 1930, were written in Yiddish, perhaps because the work was in part a call for repentance, and in Yiddish could reach a larger audience than the scholars who understood Hebrew. (1930 was more than a decade before the establishment of the modern State of Israel and therefore the reintroduction and usage of Hebrew as a language beyond the scholarly realm or small groups of Israeli settlers was not yet widespread.) The one book that included English was Palgei Shemen that included the FDR letter and Risikoff's response, described in the article.
Mnachem (Mendel) HaKohen Risikoff (1866–July 28, 1960), was an orthodox rabbi in Russia and the United States, and a prolific author of scholarly works...
concubines should be forbidden.[citation needed] According to Rabbi MnachemRisikoff, the institution of pilegesh is an alternative to formal marriage which...
19,19; Genesis Rabbah 60:3 1 Samuel 2:35 See "Torath HaKohanim", MnachemRisikoff, Minor Chap. 200 Robert Alter, The David Story (New York: W. W. Norton...
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retroactively annul the marriage as a remedy to the agunah problem; and MnachemRisikoff, who recommended in 1937 that such consideration be given not to every...
Resnick (1841–1912), orthodox Russian rabbi and Rosh yeshivah Mnachem Hakohen Risikoff (1866–1960), orthodox rabbi in Russia and the United States, prolific...
David Rappoport (1890–1941), rosh yeshiva of the Baranovich Yeshiva MnachemRisikoff (1866–1960), rabbi of Kazan, Kabbalist, rabbi and Av Beit Din of the...
his son, Rabbi Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff, especially in the book, MiTorat Zvi Yosef, From the Torah of Zvi Yosef. In this work, Risikoff, a renowned scholar...
brother. Descended from a long line of rabbis, his grandfather was Rabbi MnachemRisikoff and great-grandfather was Rabbi Zvi Yosef Resnick. Resnicoff has received...
of rabbis (including his father Herbert Isaac Simckes, grandfather MnachemRisikoff and great-grandfather Zvi Yosef Resnick). He was born in Saratoga Springs...
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