A weekly feature of Torah Tidbits to help clarify practical and conceptual aspects of the Jewish Calendar, thereby better fulfilling the mitzva of HaChodesh HaZeh Lachem... It is rare that a mazal stays with this box for five weeks in a row, but such is the fate of Snagglepuss, our stand-in for HaAri, Leo, the mazal of Menachem Av. 21 Av - 87th yahrzeit of R' Chaim HaLevi Soloveitchik, also known as Reb Chaim and the Brisker Rav, was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar considered the founder of the "Brisker method", a method of highly exacting and analytical Talmudical study that focuses on precise definition and categorization of Jewish law as commanded in the Torah, with particular emphasis on the legal writings of Rambam. His primary work was Chidushei Rebbe Chaim HaLevi, a volume of insights on Maimonides' Mishna Torah which often would suggest novel understandings of the Talmud as well... [The
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