A jubilee volume in honor of Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson. The book, which contains 22 articles written by Prof. Ben-Sasson's colleagues, students, friends, and family members is dedicated to phenomena of leadership in the Jewish world . The various articles examine conceptions, practices and ways of Jewish leadership from diverse perspectives and in varied times and places. They are based on variegated sources: historical and judicial documents, biblical exegeses, poetry, letters, Responsa, polemical and philosophical writings. The volume is a tribute to Prof. Ben Sasson's extensive academic and public activity.

Table of Contents Tefillin Blessing in Eretz Israel and in‰·EE ‡I ‰·EE ‡I„ „Ú (A Note to DavidTefillin Blessing inBook Review Ronnie Goldstein A New Look at Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and 43 in the Light of Akkadian Sources 5 Shraga Bar-On and Yakir Paz ‘The Lord’s Allotment is his People’: The Myth of the Election of Israel by Casting of Lots and the Gnostic–Christian–Pagan– Jewish Polemic 23 David Rosenthal Babylonia 63 Shlomo Naeh Rosenthal’s Article, ‘Eretz Israel and in Babylonia’) 87 Aharon Mondschein On Rashbam’s Rediscovered ‘Lost Commentary’ on Psalms 91 Avraham (Rami) Reiner An Addition to M. Beit-Arié’s Article, ‘An Unusual Method of Rendering the Date From the Creation in Hebrew Manuscripts’ 143 Miriam Frenkel The Forgotten Road to India: A Monumental Study of Medieval Jewish India Traders