המעין
תוכן באנגלית
Table of Contents
“For Aharon Had Made Them Disorderly to the Scandal of Their Enemies” / Editor’s Remarks 3
The Pauses in Reciting the First Verse of Shema – Clarifying the Wording of the Rule from Its Source in the Work `Al haKol` According to Manuscripts / Rav Avraham Bitton 4
Introduction to Rav Kook’s Preface to Song of Songs and Commentary on Its Beginning / Rav Chaim Meir Drukman ZTL 9
Death Penalty for One Who Violates a Proscription [Herem] - From the Abiding Teachings of Rav Kalman Kahane ZTL / Rav Binyamin Kahane 16
‘Ma Nishtana’ – Question of the Father or Question of the Son? / Rav Rephael Shlomo Daichovsky 23
On the Rule ‘A Woman - Her Husband Causes Her to Be Happy’ / Rav Yaakov Koppel Reinitz 31
On the Custom of Reciting the Verse (Ps.115:18) `Va`anachnu Nevarech YAH` After Psalm 145 `Tehilla LeDavid` / Rav Reuven Adler 37
The Tabernacle of Gd at Gilgal / Yigal Amitay 45
“‘To Your Children’ - These Are the Students” – Rashi as Contextual Exegete [Pashtan] and as Educator / Rav Dr. David Kalir 51
The Earthquake in the Land of Israel in Tammuz 5687 [July 1927] – Gleaning from Authors and Books / Rav Uriel Banner 64
The Beginning of the Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel / Uriel Frank 75
Halakha and Contemporary Challenges
The Definition of Baker’s Yeast and Its Prohibition on Passover / Rav Ezra Klein and Dr. Uziya Kronman 92
Concretions from a Fallow Deer – Proposal for the Clarification of the Halakhic Status of an Ovum from an Animal / Nachal Elgad Shoham 104
Responses and Comments
On the Division of Readings in Parashat `Eqev` etc. / Rav Yosef Haim Sharbani, Rahamim Sar Shalom; Further in the Matter of the Authority of Custom / Rav Gershon Shachor; On the New Edition of the Mikhlol [Comprehensive Hebrew Grammar] of RaDaK / Prof. Jordan S. Penkower 107
Memorial
Is Celiac Disease Mentioned in the Torah, and is it Permissible to Use Eye Drops on Shabbat? Remarks on Halakha and Medicine in Memory of Dr. Yitzchak Dresner ZL / Rav Mordechai Emanuel 111
On Books and Their Authors
Points for Discussion in Rav Makbili’s Edition of The Guide for the Perplexed / Rav Elhanan Uriel; Response: Rav Dr. Yohai Makbili 117
New Comments on the Chizkuni Commentary on the Torah / Rav Moshe Aharon 130
On a ‘Letter’ Never Written – An Error Which Crept Into the Writings of R’ S. Z. Shragai Regarding a Letter from Rav Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg ZTL / Rav Prof. Neria Gutel 135
Journey to the Garden of Eden and Back – On the Book Adam b’Gan Eden by Rav Eliyahu Meir Feivelson / Tomer Greenberg 139
Received by the Editorial Board / Rav Yoel Catane 141