Haskamos

Today I heard a shiur from Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser and one of the topics that he brought up was the importance of checking haskamos when you buy a sefer or a book that represents itself as expressing Torah ideas and values. I thought it would be worth it to reiterate this message again here as our main focus at the Jewish Book World is, you guessed it, Jewish books. When you are purchasing seforim with which you are not familiar it is very important to see who wrote it and whether the writer's ideas are supported by the Gedolei HaTorah and leaders of our respective communities. Just like we are careful about the food that goes into ours mouths, the things our eyes see and the words that we speak we must also be careful about what we read and learn in the name of Torah.