המעין

התוכן באנגלית

HaMa’ayan

Table of Contents:

“Pour Out Thy Wrath!” / Editor`s Remarks 3

“That Year Was Disorganized” – A Simple Explanation of a Peculiar

Passage in the Jerusalem Talmud / Rav Dr. Mordechai Halperin 4

Mordechai or Mordochai? / Rav Dr. Yehonatan Wormser 9

Seder Night in the Home of Our Master Rav Kook Z.T.L. /

Rav Shemaria Gershuni 20

Can a Father Drafted into the War Fulfill the Directive to Recount the

Exodus from Egypt to his Son by Means of a Letter? / Rav Yitzchak

Tzvi Oshinsky 27

Returning Stolen Leaven on the Holiday of Passover / Rav Netanel Shushan 38

The Haftarot for the Weekly Readings Acharei Mot - Kedoshim in a 7D3 Year /

Rav Avraham Yissachar Konig 43

The Discourse of Rav Shalom Natan Raanan Z.T.L. at the Mercaz HaRav

Yeshiva on Independence Day 5715 [1955] / Rav Hagay Shtamler 63

Rav Kook and the Workshop in Jaffa / Rav Matanya Ariel 74

“He Struck the Egyptian” – A Rabbinic Interpretation Which Was

Understood Not in Accordance with Halakha and a Comment on the

Hermeneutics of Nechama Leibowitz Z. L. / Dr. Yaakov Altman 84

On the Chapter “En Dorshin” – The Restriction Against Using Scripture

to Decide Halakha / Rav Yisrael Reicher 93

Halakha and Contemporary Challenges

Establishing the Identity of the Mother in Egg Donation / Rav David Brizel 105

The Scientific Status of the Fertilized Egg of an Animal and Its Halakhic

Ramifications in the Matter of Cultivated Meat / Rav Prof. Ari

Zivotofsky and Rav Joel Kenigsberg 117

Responses and Comments

Further on Mourning Delayed Tidings / Rav Yaakov Epstein; Kindling

Lights in the Temple with Thin Wicks and the Miracle of the Cruse of

Oil / Moche Catane; Corrections in the Translation from Yiddish of

the Letter of Rav Kook Z.T.L. / Rav Yaakov Laufer 130

‫On Books and Their Authors

“Nimuqei [Reasonings of] Rav Solomon ben Rav Meir” and the Teachings

of Rabbenu Sasson in Rashi’s Glosses to Tractate Hullin / Rav

Ephraim Leib haLevi Lewis 132

Further in the Matter of the Author of the 'Tosafot [Glosses] of the

Ancients' in Tractate Rosh Hashana / Rav Aharon Gabbai 141

Received by the Editorial Board / Rav Yoel Catane 144

Shlomo Aumann Institute, Yeshivat Sha`alvim Vol. 249 • Nisan 5784 [64, 3]