Born in Berlin, Michael L. Munk studied at the Slobodka Yeshiva and received a doctorate from the University of Wurzburg. Munk fled to England in 1938 and settled in Boston in 1941. He later worked at Beth Jacob school in Boro Park, Brooklyn, and subsequently was involved with promoting the humaneness of kosher slaughtering. Munk was fascinated with the symbolism of the Hebrew alphabet. He moved to Israel after his retirement.
And thus was finished the book Petah Debarai
In the name of the living God my redeemer and rock
In the year of the creation 306
On the 29th day of Tishri
Edited by the Hebrew grammarian
Elijah the…
A psalm of Asaph.
O God, heathens have entered Your domain,
defiled Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
They have left Your servants’ corpses
as food for the fowl of heaven,
and the…
ḥaver:Do you think languages are eternal, and have no beginning?
Kuzari:They are invented and instituted by common consent, rather than natural; this is evident from their composition of nouns, verbs…