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התוכן באנגלית - English Contents

Table of Contents:

`And From Us Do Not Forever Withhold Your Mercies` / Editor’s Remarks ………….3

In the Matter of Chanting the Passages of Admonition at a Volume Lower than Usual / Rav Serayah Deblytzki ZTL…………………………………………………. 4

Letters of Famous Hassidic Leaders That Were Found in an Old Book / Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg ZTL………………………………………………………7

Self-Incrimination vs. “A Person Cannot Render Himself Wicked” / Rav Rephael Shelomo Daichovsky ………………………………………………………..9

On the Nature of the Alter Found on Mount Eival / Rav Yaakov Ariel ………………17

 “The Rest and the Inheritance” – Eli’s Leadership vs. Samuel’s Leadership / Rav Haim Catane …………………………………………………………………….……………24

Unleavened Wafers and Their Preparation in the Temple: Halakhic, Historical and Practical Aspects / Prof. Zohar Amar ………………………………31

The Relationship Between Rav David Kimhi and the Comments to the Three Treatises on Hebrew Grammar of Rav Judah Hayyuj /

Rav Yaakov Loyfer ………………………………………………………………………………47

Sabbatical Year Matters

Rulings for the Sale [to Ameliorate Sabbatical Restrictions on Working the Land] in 5656 [1896] of Rav Naftali Hertz Halevi of Jaffa /

Rav Uriel Fuss, Esq. ……………………………………………………………………………57

Protecting the Sanctity of Sabbatical Produce in the IDF / Rav Eliezer Reichman ……………………………………………………………………….79

Responses and Comments

Is It Possible to Decide Halakha Not According to Halakha? / Rav Rephael Shelomo Daichovsky; Further on the Settlement of Ekron in the Sabbatical of 5649 [1889] / Rav Dr. Boaz Hutterer; Do Our Sages Have a ‘Religiosity-Meter’? / Eliezer Jesselson. Response: Rav Matania Ariel; On `Luach Davar BeIto` / Prof. Yaakov Shmuel Spiegel; Another Comment on the Work Vayoel Moshe in the Matter of the Directive to Settle the Land of Israel / Michael Klein; What is the Topic of the Heavenly Chariot Doing in Tractate Hagigah / Rav Shelomo David Katz; Further in the Matter of Disowning Diverse Plants Sown Together [Kil’ayim] Rather Than Uprooting Them / Rav Mordechai Emanuel, Rav Yaakov Epstein …………..90

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