9

Letters to the Editor

Forum

23

On Changes in Liturgy and Customs in General

Daniel Sperber ― Aryeh A. Frimer

41

Mishneh Torah’s Structure and its Meaning
David Gillis ― Lawrence Kaplan

61

God’s Omniscience and Free Will
Nathan Aviezer ― Alan Kadish

69

A New Ben Asher Manuscript
Moshe Haberman

Jewish Education

81

Talmud Study: From Proficiency to Meaning

Yehuda Brandes

Jewish Thought

113

The Miracle of the Answered Prayer

John D. Loike and Moshe D. Tendler

127

The Itinerary of Emmanuel Levinas’ Thought

Georges Hansel

141

Bati le-Gani: A Comparison of Discourses by Rabbis Schneersohn and Hutner

Bezalel Naor

155

Seeing Silence: Jewish Mystical Experience Refracted through the Art of Mark Rothko

Josh Rosenfeld

169

Isaac Breuer’s Utopia: An Excerpt from “Falk Neft’s Homecoming” (1923)

Elliot Resnick

181

Genetically Modified Organisms: Will This Be the Greatest Kashrus Challenge of Modern Times?
Dovid Lichtenstein

197

Is Parchment Klaf? The Halakhic Status of Contemporary STaM

Yaakov Hoffman

Talmud Torah

207

Marah: Preparing for Kabbalas HaTorah

Asher Benzion Buchman

223

Rabbinic Strategies for Dealing with Redundant Legal Passages in Scripture: The Special Case of the Middah of Repeated Parashyot, Its Use and Limitations

Dov Friedberg

History

253

A Synagogue on Har Habayit in the 7th Century: Dream or Historical Fact?
F. M. Loewenberg

Minhag

263

The Origin of the Custom of Chai Rotl

Zvi Ron

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