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Table of Contents:
"Just as You Have Done with Them Miracles and Mighty Deeds..." / The Editor 2
The Intelligibility of the Universe: A Jewish Point of View /
Prof. Benjamin Fain Z.L. 3
Explanation of the Approach of the Eminent Rav Shmuel Salant Z.T.L. to
Calculating the Time of Sunset in Jerusalem / Rav David Aharon Sofer 19
The Blessing "She`asa Nissim" Upon Seeing Hanukkah Lights Kindled
by a Noahide / Rav Eitan Kupietzky 31
The Perceptions of the Menstruant in Our Day, Results of Research,
Statistics and Interpretation / Yedidia Struck and David Schatz 34
The Requirement to Conceal Immersion and Postponing It in a Public Situation /
Michael Safrai 43
The Prayer Upon One's Entering to Beit HaMidrash / Rav Haim Catane 51
"And As For Me, When I Came From Padan": On One Remark of Rashi
and Its Influence / Rav Uriel Banner 58
Further on the Status of Secular Studies in the Yeshiva of Rav Kook in Jaffa /
Rav Matania Ariel 68
Responses and Comments
Further in the Matter of the Ramhal Letters / Rav Moshe Yehuda Rosenwasser and Prof. Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel; Further in the Matter of Prof. Berliner's Sources in His Edition of Rashi's Commentary on the Torah / Prof. Jordan Penkower; Sleeping in the Succah While Caring for One's Children / Michael Intract and Rav Oded Miller; 'No One Will Know How They Will Come About Until They Have Come to Pass' / Rav Prof. Shlomo Zalman Havlin; Further on the Sabbatical Year in Poalei Agudat Yisrael Settlements / Moshe Oren; Who Takes Precedence in Presiding Over a Wedding: The Local Rav or the Rosh Yeshiva? / Rav Amichai Kinarti; More on the Matter of the Passage in the Book of Kuzari "And If You Had the Power – You Would Kill!" / Prof. Hannah Kasher and Dr. Yaakov Altman; Tekhelet ['Blue'] at The Exodus From Egypt / Rav Yitzchak Yeshaya Weiss and Rav Zev Knopfler; Further in the Matter of The Custom of the Meal of Condolence Throughout the Seven Days of Mourning / Rav Yair Shachor and Rav Boaz Mordechai; Further in the Matter of the Date of the Passing of Our Mother Rahel / Dr. Yehoram Leshem; 76
On Books and Their Authors
In the Matter of the Testimony of the Baal haMaor [Rav Zerachiah haLevi]
About the Immigration of the Sages of Provence to the Land of Israel /
Rav Aharon Gabbai 105
Between the Rama [Rav Moshe Isserles] and the Levush [Rav Mordecai Yaffe]:
The Dispute About Rav Yoseph Karo's Approach to Deciding Halakha /
Rav Simcha Feldman 110
Received by the Editorial Board / Rav Yoel Catane 118