Sunday, July 19, 2009

Hakirah Volume 8 Has Arrived

Hakirah Volume 8 is now in distribution and subscribers should be getting their copy in the next few days. It should be available at Seforim Stores sometimes this week. This volume contains some very exciting articles. A new Forum section has been added allowing for in depth follow up and debate on past articles or current matters of interest in our community.



Volume 8 / Summer 2009

Letters to the Editor

FORUM

Response to: “A Hagiographer’s Review”
Marc B. Shapiro

Reply
Asher Benzion Buchman

Response to: “Conversion to Judaism”
Eliezer Ben Porat

Reply
Marc D. Angel

Entering a Sanctuary for Hatzalat Yisrael:
An Exchange Michael J. Broyde and Kenneth Auman

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH

Rabbi Banet’s Charming Snake
David Nimmer

R’ Shlomo Yehuda Rapoport (Shir),
Champion of Jewish Unity in the Modern Era
Chaim Landerer

TALMUD TORAH

Modern Scholarship and Yirat Shamayim
Heshey Zelcer

Who Was Re’uel?
Finding a New Solution to an Age-Old Puzzle
Yacov Balsam

JEWISH LAW

Tradition! Tradition? Rambam and the Mesorah
Asher Benzion Buchman

The Beginning of the Jewish Calendar
Bernard Dickman


JEWISH THOUGHT

“Faith and Heresy” and “Principles of Philosophy”
Meir Zelcer

חינוך

מקומו של "משנה תורה" במערכת החינוכית של ספרד והמזרח התיכון
יוסף פאור

הלכה

בדין טבילה ביום במקום אונס
אליעזר בן פורת

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