In this issue: Ronit Nikolsky and Reuven Kiperwasser | Three Tales of Kings: Independent Traditions in Exempla of the Rabbis (Sefer Maasiot) Yair Lorberbaum | Rabbi Yom-Tov Asevilli’s Book of Rememberance : Philosophy, Kabbalah, Halakhah Eugene D. Matanky | Studying Kabbalah in Solomon Alqabeṣ’s and Moses Cordovero’s Circle: Sephardic Pilpul, Propositions, and Yeshivah Study

Tarbiz is the only Hebrew academic journal devoted to the entire range of Jewish studies. Appearing quarterly, this journal is the principal forum for the expression of the most important developments in Jewish studies in our generation, and among its contributors are the leading scholars in the various fields of Jewish studies in Israel and the world, as well as young scholars who are beginning to make their mark. Tarbiz was first published in 1930 by the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the editorial pen of Prof. Jacob Nachum. Purchase of the subscription online includes domestic shipping via registered mail of the Israel Post. Other delivery options are available in the online form . International subscriptions include shipping via Fedex.

In this issue: Adiel Schremer and Benjamin Katzoff | The Tannaitic Tradition Concerning the Passover Celebration of King Hezekiah Menahem Kahana and Ofra Tirosh-Becker | Jeshua ben Yehuda’s Contribution to the Study of the Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai and Its Language Israel Ori Meitlis | ‘Sidrei Taharot’: An Attempt to Complete the Talmud as a Chapter in the History of Hassidism and Its Opponents (Hitnagdut) Simcha Emanuel | An Error Always Repeats Itself

In this issue: Shira Shmidman | The Dispute between Rami bar Hama and Rava – New Perspectives Ariel Malachi | David Ben Saꜥad Al-Saꜥadi and the Intense Polemic Regarding Allegory in Yemen Oded Yisraeli | Keter Shem Tov of R. Shem Yov Ibn Gaon: A Chapter in the History of Nahmanides’ Kabbalah in the 13th–14th Centuries Oz Bluman | Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin and the Recontextualization of Hasidic Innovation Gideon Freudenthal | 'Maꜥasseh Nissim'. Salomon Ben Joshua (Maimon)’s Commentary on The Homilies of Haran (R. Nissim Ben-Reuben Gerundi)

In this issue: Avishai Bar-Asher | The Earliest Extant Version of Sefer Yesirah Tamar Kadari | Thousands unto Solomon: The Relationship Between Midrash Kohelet Rabbah and Midrash Shir Hashirim Rabbah Elyashiv Cherlow and Adiel Breuer | Remnants of ‘Maʿasim Livne Ereẓ Yira’el’ Written on a Scroll

In this issue: Shira Shmidman | The Textual Witnesses of Tosefta Yevamot: New Finding in Light of the Cairo Genizah Fragments Gideon Bohak | I Beg You: Appeals to Angels in the Talmudic and Gaonic Periods Avishai Bar-Asher | The Bahir as It Once was: Transmission History as a Tool for Reconstructing and Reassesing the Text, Format, and Ideas of the Original Composition

In this issue: Chaim Milikowsky | The Transformation of Traditions and the Creation of Variant Readings in Vayyiqra Rabba Chapter 25 Sections 1-2 – Preceding and Succeeding the Redactorial Moment Shulamit Elizur | 'The birth of poems' – Deliberations on the Conception of the Poem and Longings for Zion in a Previously Unknown Piyyut by R. Judah Halevi Judith Weiss | The Sefer Yetzira Commentary Attributed to Isaac the Blind: Evidence Supporting Its Early Dating, Its Central Status among Thirteenth century Kabbalists and the Validity of Its Attribution to Isaac the Blind Simcha Emanuel | Rashba’s Responsa to North African Sages Israel Ori Meitlis | The Place of Izhbitza-Radzin Thought in the Tekhelet writings of the Radziner Rebbe

In this issue: Hillel Mali | Ritual Leftovers and the Tannaitic Perceptions of Holiness Idan Pinto | Universe – Sanctuary – Man: On a Threefold Analogy in Two Anonymous Texts and their Traces in Thirteenth century Kabbalah Yudith Weiss | Isaac of Acre’s Commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah Commentary Attributed to Isaac the Blind: Research and Edition Haviva Pedaya | Kabbalah Out of Context: On the Erasure of the Provençal School in Kabbalah Research

In this issue: Haim Shapira | The Courts in the Mishnah : M. Sanhedrin , Chapter 1, Revisited Elyashiv Cherlow | Milta belo Taʿama : A Chapter in the Textual History of the Talmud Yerushalmi Moshe Idel | On ‘The Book of the Elderly Man’, The Backgrounds of Its Composition and the Research on it

Articles in this issue: Menahem Kahana| 'וכולה מתניתין': Who were the Abbreviators of Mishnayot in the Tannaitic Midrashim? Robert Brody | How many editions of his book Oaths (Kitab al-Ayman) did R. Hayya Publish? Warren Zev Harvey | Did Ibn Gabirol Write Adon 'Olam? Adiel Breuer | Hidushim on Tractate 'Eruvin Attributed to Hame'iri Moshe Yagur | Shaving Hair and Pairing Nails: The Origins and Transmutations of a Unique Rite of Passage in Medieval Judaism

Articles in this issue: David Henshke | Ma'amadot: A First Stage in the History of Rabbinic Prayer? Hannan Mazeh | Amanos or Ammana: An Emerging Interpretative Tradition and Maimonides' Emendation of the Mishnah Elyashiv Cherlow | The History of the Text of Talmud Yerushalmi: Studies of the Genizah Fragments Yehuda Zvi Stampfer | Sa'adia Gaon's Interpretation of the thirteen Hermeneutical Principles according to the Arabic Source: Commentary, Tendencies, and Unknown Sources

Articles in this issue : Hallel Baitner | Sprinkling at the Temple Entrance: A Forgotten Temple Ritual Gideon Libson | Maimonides and the Muslim Theologian Muhammad Al-Ghazali on the Generality of Law and the Doctrine of Distinction Yosseph Schwartz | Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed in Jewish and Christian Mysticism: A Chapter in Comparative Historiography Adam Afterman and Ido Pinto | On Apotheosis in the Kabbalah of Rabbi Bahya ben Asher