Volume 31

 

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Letters to the Editor

 

JEWISH THOUGHT

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Lectures on Genesis, X through XIII, Meir Triebitz

A Light Unto Our Nation: R. Meir Simḥah of Dvinsk’s Approach to Nationhood and Zionism in Meshekh Ḥokhmah, Jonah Steinmetz

Ignoring the Writing on the Wall: Semiology vs. Metaphysics, Abe Halevy Faur

 

TALMUD TORAH

Of Dogma & Dissimulation: Marc Shapiro’s Analysis of Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles Reappraised, Betzalel Sochaczewski

The Exodus and Historical Truth: A Critique of Ani Maamin by Joshua Berman, and the Late Date Exodus Theory, Geula Twersky

Emotion and Intent in Prayer, Asher Benzion Buchman

Untangling the Mystery of Women’s Hair Covering in Talmudic Passages, Ari Storch

 

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH

Yom Tov Sheini: Reasons and Relevance, Stewart Rubin

Let Him Bray: The Stormy Correspondence Between Samuel David Luzzatto and Elia Benamozegh, Daniel A. Klein

The Origin and Evolution of “Mesoret ha-Shas”, Eli Genauer

 

TORAH AND MEDICINE

The Mystery of the Medical Training of the Many Isaac Wallichs: Amsterdam (1675), Leiden (1675), Padua (1683), Halle (1703), Edward Isaac Reichman

What Does It Mean to Be a Jewish Hospital in America Today?, Jason Weiner

 

MINHAG

L-Ḥayyim, Zvi Ron

 

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