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Table of Contents:

"Just as You Have Done with Them Miracles and Mighty Deeds..." / The Editor       2

The Intelligibility of the Universe: A Jewish Point of View /

Prof. Benjamin Fain Z.L.                                                                                 3

Explanation of the Approach of the Eminent Rav Shmuel Salant Z.T.L. to

Calculating the Time of Sunset in Jerusalem / Rav David Aharon Sofer        19

The Blessing "She`asa Nissim" Upon Seeing Hanukkah Lights Kindled

by a Noahide / Rav Eitan Kupietzky                                                                31

The Perceptions of the Menstruant in Our Day, Results of Research,

Statistics and Interpretation / Yedidia Struck and David Schatz                     34

The Requirement to Conceal Immersion and Postponing It in a Public Situation /

Michael Safrai                                                                                                 43

The Prayer Upon One's Entering to Beit HaMidrash / Rav Haim Catane                               51

"And As For Me, When I Came From Padan": On One Remark of Rashi

and Its Influence / Rav Uriel Banner                                                               58

Further on the Status of Secular Studies in the Yeshiva of Rav Kook in Jaffa /

Rav Matania Ariel                                                                                            68

Responses and Comments

Further in the Matter of the Ramhal Letters / Rav Moshe Yehuda Rosenwasser and Prof. Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel; Further in the Matter of Prof. Berliner's Sources in His Edition of Rashi's Commentary on the Torah / Prof. Jordan Penkower; Sleeping in the Succah While Caring for One's Children / Michael Intract and Rav Oded Miller; 'No One Will Know How They Will Come About Until They Have Come to Pass' / Rav Prof. Shlomo Zalman Havlin; Further on the Sabbatical Year in Poalei Agudat Yisrael Settlements / Moshe Oren; Who Takes Precedence in Presiding Over a Wedding: The Local Rav or the Rosh Yeshiva? / Rav Amichai Kinarti; More on the Matter of the Passage in the Book of Kuzari "And If You Had the Power – You Would Kill!" / Prof. Hannah Kasher and Dr. Yaakov Altman; Tekhelet ['Blue'] at The Exodus From Egypt / Rav Yitzchak Yeshaya Weiss and Rav Zev Knopfler; Further in the Matter of The Custom of the Meal of Condolence Throughout the Seven Days of Mourning / Rav Yair Shachor and Rav Boaz Mordechai; Further in the Matter of the Date of the Passing of Our Mother Rahel / Dr. Yehoram Leshem;                                                                   76

On Books and Their Authors

In the Matter of the Testimony of the Baal haMaor [Rav Zerachiah haLevi]

About the Immigration of the Sages of Provence to the Land of Israel /

Rav Aharon Gabbai                                                                                        105

Between the Rama [Rav Moshe Isserles] and the Levush [Rav Mordecai Yaffe]:

The Dispute About Rav Yoseph Karo's Approach to Deciding Halakha /

Rav Simcha Feldman                                                                                      110

Received by the Editorial Board / Rav Yoel Catane                                                   118