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
