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A High Holiday Reader Days of Volume II Awe Eight Original Essays © 2003 Cincinnati Community Kollel 2241 Losantiville Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45237-4222 513 631-1118 [email protected] Days of Awe Volume I can be found online at http://kollel.shul.net/Resources/Pubs/elul.pdf This booklet contains words of Torah. Please treat it with respect, as you would a prayer book. Partial funding provided by our friends at This Holiday Reader is dedicated by Dr. Sidney Peerless in memory of Mrs. Miriam Peerless Rabbi & Mrs. Louis Feinberg Mr. Alter & Mrs. Sophia Peerless Honor Roll 5762-63 Dedication We are grateful to the members of our Honor Roll, whose support over the past twelve months has continued to make the Kollel a positive force in the community. 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    Volume XXXIX, No. Winter 5760 IN HIS Issue: 4 Message from the EditNs YEHODiT ROBINSON 4 Letters STEPHEN Jlt\. TOLANY RABBI ALAM J. YUTER SHANI HOLZEFI i!XCUUIVE INTERVIEW 6 Hamevaser Exclusive Interview RABBI DR. NORMAN LAMM TliUCT AND TEXTUAUSM The of Dovid Tzvl Hoff'man CHANA KOEl'!!GSBERG 14 Reading Difference in Torah FJJYArlU S1ERN 18 Kri U't,tiv: Rabbinic Views on Textual Vai'iance ZEMIRA BARON 18 Kri U'Ktiv: The Spanish Exegetes DEBORAH GELLER 21 Rebecca: The Interpretive Creation of a Matriarch YEHUDIT ROBINSON 24 fire: Gift or Theft YEHUDA SEPTIMUS 26 From the Rabbinic Luminaries to Freud BENJAMIN ,JOFFE 30 An Introduction to Talmud Study RABBI SHMUEL NACHAM 34 Teaching Texts and their Pretexts Views · 36 Modesty and Modernity R,.,BBI YosEF BLAU Interviews 38 Rabbi Shalom Carmy ASHER FRIED.N\AN Dr. Lawrence Schiffman DAVID REGEV 46 Rabbi Mordekhai Sabato EZRA FRAZER . 50 Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill JASON LEIB Rabbi Meidan ARlWE!SEN IU!iVUEWS 54 BOOK· REVIEWS: and Liminality in the Bible SHARI L ROSENBERG 55 A RIVALRY OF GENIUS Uri Goldstein 56 Survey of Recent Orthodox Jewish Periodical Literature MORDY FRlEDMA!'I 58 CvaERToRAH JONATHAN PRICE TO Bl A PART Of fUTUREISSUE.S, PLEASE CONTACT: Itsther Donath~ 212.252.0149 eszado@aotcom - 212.795.0371 [email protected] . a.n e,maU to [email protected] JQBS AVA!lABLf !NCl.!IDE WRmNG, ED!TiNG, BUSINESS, tAYOI.IT, GRAPHICS & WEB. • oll 1 r t rt. ffAMil/1\SU, Whiter 5760 3 e apologize fi.,r the numerous technical diffi. I greatly enjoyed the cxcd!,;;nt imervicv,' culties that dda,_·ed our publication.