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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