המעין

HaMa'yan

Table of Contents:

“Speak Unto the Children of Israel That They Go Forward…” / The Editor………………..2

The Approach of the Hida [Rav Chaim Yosef David Azulai] in Kavu'a

and Parish [‘In Place’ and ‘Out of Place’ – Understanding Rules

for Resolving Uncertainty] / Prof. Yonatan Aumann,

Prof. Yisrael Aumann and Shoham Baris……………………………………………………3

"And Shall Graze in Another's Field" – Estimating Damages in Our Day /

Rav Raphael Shlomo Daichovsky……………………………………………………………..17

The Prohibition or the Obligation to Flee the City During an Epidemic /

Moshe David Chechik……………………………………………………..22

Tree, O Tree, What Blessing Shall I Recite Upon Seeing You? /

Rav Uriel Frank……………………………………………………………………………………….35

Age Limit for Officiating Sages in the Sanhedrin /

Rav Yizhak Baruch Rozenblum………………………………………………………………..50

The Name of Gd in the Amharic Translation of the Prayerbook /

Rav Yehuda haLevy Amichai…………………………………………………………………..59

"The Way of the Torah is to Instantiate and Then to Abstract":

A Study in Nahmanides' Approach to the Directive "Ye Shall Be Holy" /

Avi Lifschitz…………………………………………………………………………………………….65

The Gravestone of Rav Baruch, Father of Maharam [Meir] of Rothenburg /

Avraham Fraenkel………………………………………………………………………………….75

The 'Poor' Who Joined the Hasidic Aliyah [Immigration] of 1777 /

Avraham Avish Schor…………………………………………………………………………….95

Responses and Comments

The New Writings of Rav Elijah Baal Shem of Loanz from Manuscript – Indeed? /Prof. Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel; Further Discussion in Response to the Article "And If You Had the Power – You Would Kill" / Dr. Yaakov Altman; Concerning Day and Night and Concerning Shabbat in Far Northern Lands / Rav Moshe Ganz; In the Matter of the Review of Sinai / Yosef Abramson; Another Comment on the Work Vayoel Moshe in the Matter of the Directive to Settle the Land of Israel / Rav Michael Klein; Concerning Washing Hands Before Kiddush on Sabbath Evening and Returning to Ancestral Custom / Yitzchak Hildesheimer……………………………….104

On Books and Their Authors

Was the Treatise Yagati uMatsati Never Before Printed? /

Rav Daniel Yosef Raccah……………………………………………………………………..111

Received by the Editorial Board / Rav Yoel Catane……………………………………………..118

Shlomo Aumann Institute, Yeshivat Sha`alvim

Issue 233 Nisan 5780 [60:3]