המעין

English Contents

HAMA`YAN 247

 

Table of Contents:

Admonishments and Blessings / Editor’s Remark                                 4

The Standing Prayer [amida] for Weekdays According to the

Italian Rite / Rav Aharon Gabbai                                                       5

Appealing to Angels in the Penitential Poems [selichot] – Halakha

and Custom, Belief and Emotion / Rav Netanel Arye                        24

Commemoration of Sounding [zikhron teru`a] / Avraham Fraenkel  38

 ‘The Wood of the Sukkah is Prohibited All Seven’ /

Rav Yehuda Zoldan                                                                           53

Comments on the Directive to Assemble [hakhel] According to the

Approaches of Rav Saadia Gaon and Maimonides /

Prof. Avraham Feintuch                                                                   67

The Sphere Revolves and the Constellations are Fixed or The

Sphere is Fixed and the Constellations Revolve – The

Debate of the Sages of Israel and the Nations of the

World and the Manuscript Text of Rashi / Rav Yaakov Laufer          74

Synonyms of Joy / Rav Yehuda Linchner                                                     97

 “Like a Girls’ Ball”: On the Importance of Cooperation Between

Authors and Editors / Rav Amichai Kinarti                                       105

 

Fifty Years Since the Yom Kippur War

Chavurata Kadishta – Members of Yeshivot Hesder in the Yom

Kippur War / Rav Haim Sabato                                                          109

Thanksgiving for the Yom Kippur War – Personal Story and

Halakhic Clarification / Rav Zeev Weitman                                        113

An Evening of Thanks for Deliverance in the Yom Kippur War /

Rav Prof. Yoel Elitzur                                                                        126

Rav Yitzchak Hutner Z.T.L. and the Yom Kippur War /

Rav Uriel Banner                                                                               130

Reminiscences and Halakhic Clarifications Around the Yom

Kippur War / Rav (Lt. Col. Res.) Yehoshua ben-Meir                      136

 

 

Halakhic Discussions from the Time of the Yom Kippur War /

Rav Dr. (Lt. Col. Res.) Mordechai Halperin                                     167

Identifying Fallen Soldiers in the IDF / Col. (Res.) Shimon

Perchik (‘Shefer’)                                                                                          187

Is a Fallen Soldier Who Became Concealed in the Ground by a

Sandstorm Considered ‘Buried’ for All Rules of Mourning /

Rav Yaakov Ruza                                                                                          224

The Time of the Onset of Mourning for Fallen Soldiers Who Were

Not Yet Interred / Rav Yoel Amital                                                                238

Using Synagogues for Security Needs / Dr. Moshe Ehrenwald                                245

Avenging Blood in Our Time / Rav Dr. Itamar Warhaftig                                          259

Deferment from the Ranks of the Military – Permission or

Obligation? / Rav Aryeh Katz                                                            269

 ‘Judges and Officers’ – Matters of Judgement and Enforcement /

Rav Shlomo Daichovsky                                                                              276

Principles of the Modern Regime – Reality and Halakha /

Rav Yitzchak Sheilat                                                                                     284

 

Responses and Comments

A. Letter of Rav Abraham Isaac haCohen Kook to the Memorial of Aaron Aaronsohn – Additions from His Holy Hand; B. In the Matter of Using Willow Branches from Trees Growing in Jerusalem / Dr. Yehoram Leshem; Considerations for Leniency in Ruling for a Traditional Community / Rav Shaul Bar-Ilan, Response: Rav Asher Sebbag; Is it Possible to Depend upon Artificial Vision in Evaluating Appearances [of Blood] / Rav Eitan Kupietzky; Who is the Great Person That Rav Abraham Isaac haCohen Kook Z.T.L. Admired, and Who is the Student Whom He Endorsed? / Rav Dr. Ari Shvat; The Explanation of the Verse, “My Heart Said Unto Thee…” According to Maimonides’ Responsum / Rav Avraham Menachem Horowitz                     296

 

Received by the Editorial Board / Rav Yoel Catane                                                  306