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Hama’yan 259 Table of Contents:
`These Are the Words of the Covenant`… / Editor’s Remark 3
Description of the ‘Rejoicing in the Law’ Festival [Hag Simhat Torah] in the City of
Merzig in 5642 / Godchaux [Hayim Gershon] Schnerb Z.L. 4
Rav A. Y. haCohen Kook Z.T.L.’s Letter to the ‘Moshe’ Organization of Shepherds in
the Land of Israel / Dr. Yehoram Leshem 13
The Rebbe Rayatz Z.T.L.’s Letter to the Eminent Rav Z. N. Goldberg Z.T.L.’s Father /
Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson of Lubavitch Z.T.L. 34
One Who Benefits From This World Without Reciting a Blessing / Rav Moshe Ganz 37
A Red Heifer Slaughtered with Mundane Intent / Rav Yosef Abramson 41
Renewed Enquiry into the Genealogical Structure of the Family of the Glossator Isaac
ben Samuel the Elder [Ri haZaken] and the Ramifications Thereof /
Rav Ephraim Lewis 49
Halakha and Contemporary Challenges
“Until It Be Subdued” of the Sabbath? / Rav Yehoshua ben Meir 64
The Obligation of Reproof in Our Times / Rav Yaakov Epstein 82
Responses and Comments
The Opinion of Rav A. Y. haCohen Kook Z.T.L. in the Matter of the Character Trait of Trust / Rav Amichai Kinarti; The Attitude in Our Generation to the Death of King Josiah / Shaul Yahalom; Further in the Matter of the Works Shivhei Cohen Keter Torah and Zivhei Efrayim / Prof. Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel; Three Comments on Issue 258 / Rav Elhanan Sofer, Responses: Rav Yaakov Matalon, Rav Yoel Catane; Further in the Matter of the New Wording for Separating Terumot and Ma`asrot / Rav Avishai Grosser, Rav Yaakov Epstein, Rav Mordecai Emanuel, Responses: Rav Shmuel Ariel; Further in the Approach of Rav Feinstein in the Matter of the Conversion of a Minor Who Will Be Raised in a Non-Observant Home / Rav Dr. Ari Yitzchak Shvat (Chwat); Three Comments in the Matter of the Priestly Blessing / Rav Binyamin Henschke; Correcting Error and Historical Accuracy / Yitzchak Hildesheimer 94
On Books and Their Authors
On the Work Responsa of Rabbenu Tam / Rav Yehuda Leib Kliers 110
Polysemy: One Tool Among the Methods of Scriptural Exegesis of the Author of
HaKetav vehaKabbalah [Rav Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenburg] /
Rav Prof. Neria Gutel 117
Journey in Pursuit of the Lost Manuscripts of the Ohr Same’ach [Rav Meir Simcha of
Dvinsk] / Rav Natan Kotler 125
Comment in the Matter of Maimonidean Omissions / Rav Aharon Ofir 131
Received by the Editorial Board / Rav Yoel Catane 135