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HaMa’yan 238 Table of Contents

‘Rabbi Akiva was laughing’ / The Editor……................................................................................3

Responsum of the Eminent Rav Aharon Kotler ZTL in the Matter of

               Shemittah in the Mahane Israel Settlement / Moshe Ariel Fuss………………………..4

The Innovative Approach of Rav Jonathan Sacks ZTL to the Question of

               Evil in the World / Rav Natan Kotler……………………………………......................8

Yahrzeit Customs Beyond Fifty Years After One's Passing / Rav Ori Samet……………….…..15

Clarifications in the Matter of Responsibility of the Misled in ‘Misleading’

               the Misleader [Lifnei Iver al Lifnei Iver] / Rav Rephael Swed………………………..25

The Order of the Chapters of the Daily Psalm [Shir shel Yom] /

               Shemuel Cohen………………………………………………………………………...31

The Metheg [Stress Mark] in the Prayer Book of Rav Ezriel and His Son

               Elijah of Vilna, and Refutations of the Claims of Rav Zalman Hanau

               Against Them / Rav Yonatan Karni…………………………………………………..35

The ‘Linked’ Torah / Yonatan Rabinowitz……………………....................................................41

Halakha and Contemporary Challenges

Considerations and Preferences in Questions of 'Statistical Mortality' /

               Rav Oz Bluman……………………………………………………............................60

Dismissing an Employee Who Declines to Be Inoculated Against Corona /

               Rav David Brizel……………………………………………......................................69

Thinking on Contemporary Challenges

Is It Permissible to Travel to the Moon? / Rav Nahum Eliezer

               Rabinovitch ZTL…………………………………………………………………….80

Reflections in the Wake of the Disaster in Meron on Lag BaOmer 5781

               [2021] / Rav Shlomo Daichovsky…………………………………………………..83

"We Shall Establish Yeshivot in Every Place"? – Points to Consider /

               Rav Boaz Greenwood……………………………………………….........................93

Responses and Comments

The Influence of ‘Rav Kook’s Lecture’ in the Establishment of the Talmudic Encyclopedia –

Reaction / Rav Prof. Neria Gutel, Rav Uri Redman; Further on the Torah Reading in the Yearly

Cycle: Prof. Jordan Penkower, Rav Chaim Asher Berman, Rahamim Sar Shalom; Was

Nachmanides a Descendant of Rav Isaac ben Reuven Albargeloni? / Adiel Breuer, Rav Prof.

Oded Yisraeli; Profaning Gd’s Name or ‘Profaning Gd’? / Yehoshua Baharav………………98

Received by the Editorial Board / Rav Yoel Catane……………………..................................107

Listing of Articles in Volume 61 [5781]………………………………………………………132