Current Volume 20

  Winter 2015

   ISBN:  193680309-7

 

 

 

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9

Letters to the Editor

JEWISH THOUGHT

25

Paḥad Yitzḥak: A Joyful Song of Affirmation

Yaakov Elman

 

65

Kabbalah—Escape from Reality or Affirmation of Life?

Bezalel Naor

 

 

75

Misinterpreting Rabbi Judah Ha-Levi

H. Norman Strickman

   

91

What Must a Jew Believe: Dogma and Inadvertent Heresy, Revisited

Eliyahu Krakowski

FREE CHOICE

99

The Jewish Idea of Freedom

David P. Goldman

 

 

115

God, Man, Chaos and Control: How God Might Control the Universe

Alan Kadish

 

 

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH

 

 

133

A Short History of the Jewish Fixed Calendar: The Origin of the Molad
J. Jean Ajdler

Full Appendix

 

 

191

Redacting Tosafot on the Talmud: Part II―Editing Methods

Aryeh Leibowitz

Minhag

205

The Mysterious Origin of Lag Ba-Omer

Mitchell First

HISTORY

219

Christian-Hebraism in England: William Wotten and the First Translation of the Mishnah into English
Marvin J. Heller

Jewish Law

239

Torah Authority
Asher Benzion Buchman

זכור

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בא השמש בצהריים: רב איתם שמעון הנקין הי"ד

דניאל אשר קליינמאן

השקפה

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שיטת רבי שמעון בשיעורים ובמידות

דניאל וולטמן