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THE
TORAH
U-MADDA
JOURNAL
AN ANNUAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERACTION
BETWEEN JUDAISM AND GENERAL CULTURE
A publication of
The Torah u-Madda Project
Yeshiva University
500 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033
CONTENTS
FOREWORD—IN TRIBUTE vi
David Shatz
IN GRATITUDE
Jacob J. Schacter and David Shatz viii
ARTICLES
Body and Soul: Teh.iyyat ha-Metim and Gilgulim
in Medieval and Modern Philosophy 1
Yitzchak Blau
The Torah Commentary of R. Nissim ben Mosheh of
Marseilles: On a Medieval Approach to Torah u-Madda 20
Haim Kreisel
On the Limits of Non-Literal Interpretation of Scripture
from an Orthodox Perspective 37
Joshua L. Golding
Flowing Upstream: Reflections on Studying
Gandhi at Yeshiva 60
Shalom Carmy
Six Days Shall You Toil: Classic Jewish Work Values
in Summary and Comparative Religious Perspective 69
David J. Schnall
Employee Agreements Not to Compete in
American Law, Economic Theory and Halakhah 95
Aaron Levine
The H.illazon and the Principle of “Muttar be-Fikha”
Mois Navon 142
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REVIEW ESSAYS
Art and the Jew (Kalman P. Bland, The Artless Jew:
Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual)
Gerald J. Blidstein 163
The War Among the Jews (Samuel G. Freedman, Jew vs. Jew:
The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry)
Bernard J. Firestone 173
and of
a distinguished educator,
the personification of h.esed,
and an indomitable support
for her husband and family
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FOREWORD
IN TRIBUTE
DAVID SHATZ
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IN GRATITUDE
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