For those who've asked in the DMs - Yes, 99% posted is bought (feel free to ask for pgs./opinions about spec. seforim & will try to accommodate). Strictly personal recommendations, hopes to show richness and depths of Torah & to bring to the fore lesser-known authors/titles.
A haskamah from the Talner Rebbe, aka Prof. Isadore Twersky ๐
(It appeared in Naorโs ed. of this treatise from Rashba, although it was intended for this Raavad edition)
ZS is a beautiful sefer but when you take a generic "please learn for my sake and may Hashem repay you" and produce a fire campaign (even a book titled 'The *Promise* of the Zera Shimshon') can't help assuming there's ulterior motive$. But false promises hurt people the most.
@DanielKampner Canโt blame him; he had whatever he had. Otoh, quotes in his Tokfo Cohen a ms. he was shown allegedly copied from Sema and then proved from elsewhere in Sema how that ms. couldnโt have been from Sema ๐
$KPTI MF timeline. P1 update at ASH Dec. 2022, then April 2023 at AACR, initiates P3 June 2023, receive FT July 2023 (received OD in Oct. 2022), Nov. 2023 CEO @ Jefferies "Very open to the possibilities to make sure that we maximize the potential of Selinexor + Rux $INCY".
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From Cantor: biotech M&A transactions took an avg of 12.9 mos in 2023. From start of deals talks to deal announcement. Assume deal talks start after data, confirming this and how long after data.
R. Yaakov Hizkuni (not the more well-known R. Hizkuni b. Manoah) suggests -per the midrash- Avraham sought advice and didnโt immediately circumcise bec of meteoropathy