HAKIRAH VOLUME 34

Letters to the Editor

JEWISH HISTORY

Rabbinic Authority and Leadership on the Contemporary Scene
Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

“On Herzl” (1919) by Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Kaplan
Nathaniel Helfgot

The Order to Close the Volozhin Yeshivah and Expel Its Roshei Yeshivah
Oleg Friedman and Jacob Sasson

Why Did the United States Not Save the Six Million?
Elliot Resnick
JEWISH THOUGHT
The “Children of Prophets”–Vox Populi as Literal Vox Dei
Francis Nataf

Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Neighbors Behind Fences
David Curwin

A Jewish Response to the Numinous: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Critiques of Rudolf Otto
Alec Goldstein

Rambam’s Authenticity
David Guttmann

The Ikkarei Emunah of Mishneh Torah
Asher Benzion Buchman
TORAH AND MEDICINE
The Jewish Attraction to the Medical Profession in Physicians’ Own Words: A Mesorah of Medicine
Edward Reichman

Spiritual Immunity: How a Person Can Serve as a Dwelling Place for the Holy Shekhinah
John Loike and Dovid Goldwasser

Nonmedical Use of Adderall: Halakhic Considerations
Sharon Galper-Grossman and Shamai A. Grossman
MINHAG
Friday Night’s Ribon Kol Ha-Olamim—the Second Half of Shalom Aleikhem
Yaakov Jaffe

Gadlu: Position and Bowing
Zvi Ron
TALMUD TORAH
“Be-Shuv Hashem et Shivat Tziyon”:A Widely Misunderstood Biblical Phrase
Mitchell First

Searching for Elijah the Prophet
Natan Kotler

 

 "מגילת ספר" מאת הרב יעקב עמדין: האמנם זיוף?

 יעקב יוסף שכטר

תאי גזע ברפוה והלכה

יוסף כהן

עוד על תפילת כל נדרי בקהילות אשכנז:בין תוקפו ההלכתי-משפטי ללחנו העוצמתי

יוסי גרין

פרשיות פתוחות וסתומות בתורה

אהרן קסל