The figure of Moses, his leadership and his history, are recorded in the Torah, and he emerges as an impressive personality: lawmaker, prophet, leader and man. Ahad Ha'am remarked that the figure of Moses is a subject for the learned, but not for them

The book illuminates and examines the multifaceted utilizations of lot casting in Jewish tradition from the Bible to the late Renaissance.

The Haifa Municipality Avraham Kariv Prize in Literary Criticism, 1992. In this book the author illuminates the polemic-satiric elements of the works of Tuvia Feder, Meir Israel Bresselau and an anonymous writer. The texts of these satirical works, two

According to Maimonides, there is no difference between Jew and Gentile on a human level. This will be proved based on his Mishneh Torah.

The Vilna Gaon's writings are all commentaries, thus making it difficult to assess his views on the central issues of Judaism. Now, for the first time, one of the more controversial issues in the Gaon's writings has been decoded: his views on the redempti

The Holon Prize for Rabbinic Literature and Hokhmat Yisrael, In the Name of Moshe Haim Shapira, 1988 The book examines the interaction of prayer, early Piyyut and Heikhalot literature, tracing the various stages of development of the Siddur and prayer

This book, the fourth in the series written by Prof. Dov Schwartz dealing with Rabbi Soloveitchik's thought, is mainly devoted to his work from the late 1960s

This book explores the fundamental ambivalence of the Rabbis toward zealous activism.

A critical edition of this anti-Christian philo-sophical polemic written by R. Hasdai Crescas, author of Sefer Or Ha-Shem, which throws light both on his thought and on the medieval Jewish-Christian debate. Translated into Hebrew by R. Joseph Ben Shem-

This volume includes studies that tackle ways in which Jews experience and conceive music both as individuals and as communities living in diaspora conditions.