המעין

HAMA`YAN

Table of Comtents:

`We Will Go Up by the High Way`: Editor's Remarks / Rav Yoel Catane                                                 2

The Power of the Sages to Establish Torah Laws / Rav Moshe Ganz                                                     3

Maimonides on Mixtures, `the Tenth of Rabbi` and the Number e /

Prof. Yuval Roichman                                                                                                              10

The Value of Farming and Working in the Land of Israel According

to the Chatam Sofer / Rav Yaakov Zisberg                                                                               15

A Place for Peshat: The Plain Meaning of the First Topic in the Third

Chapter of Tractate Hagigah / Rav Eliyahu Soloveichik                                                             29

Do the Kohanim Deliver Their Own Blessing or the Blessing of Heaven? /

Rav Dr. Moshe Pinchuk                                                                                                                9

Treating a Cut Face on Shabbat – 'Anti-Value' Judgement?/

Rav Harel Dvir                                                                                                                               49

Halakha and Contemporary Developments

Utilitarianism and Ethics in the Planning of an Autonomous System /

Rav Yosef Sprung                                                                                                                        54

Using a Smart Trash Bin on Shabbat / Rav Elchanan Prins                                                                     70

Responses and Comments

Further on the Relationship of the Netziv [Rav Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin]

to Settling the Land, and the Rabbinate of the Hazon Ish

[Rav Avraham Yesha`ya Karelitz] in Steibtz / Rav Yosef Yona                                       76

Resolving the Custom of Not Reciting the Al haMihya [Blessing After

Cake] on Pat haBa’a be-Kesanin [Baked Goods Containing Grain] /

Rav Peretz Levine                                                                                                          .78

"Ammonite and Moabite" – Why Not Mention the Moabite First? /

Yekutiel Rosenfeld                                                                                                                        81

Memorials

Rabbenu Rosh haYeshiva haRav Avichai Rontzki Z.T.L./                                                                            83

Remarks on Parting from Rav Elyashiv Knohl Z.T.L. at Interment /

Rav Zeev Weitman                                                                                                                       .88

On Books and Their Authors

On the Volume of Chut Shani Regarding the Immersion of Utensils /

Rav Yehoshua Inbal                                                                                                                    91

Further on Responsa Avo Beitekha / Rav Avraham Stav; Rav Arye Katz                                               .107

Received by the Editorial Board / Rav Yoel Catane                                                                                   116

Listing of Articles in Volume 58                                                                                                                    128