Studies in Halakhah and Rabbinic History Professor Yoel Elitzur thoroughly steeped in the sources

thoroughly steeped in the sources -- both Jewish and general -- it is a very enjoyable

and the constraints of their time and place

a leading expert in the fields of Bible and Talmud

To Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

and Shavuot in Nusah Ashkenaz

Studies in Halakhah and Rabbinic History Professor Yoel Elitzur thoroughly steeped in the sourcesBy the time of his death at age 31, Rabbi Eitam Henkin Hyd had authored over fifty articles and four books. The scion of an illustrious rabbinic dynasty, he was acclaimed for both his halakhic writings and his mastery of the byways of the rabbinic world of the 19th and 20th centuries. Those who grasped his gifts forecast for him a future as a rabbinic luminary. Rabbi Eitam Henkin and his wife, Naama Hyd, were murdered by terrorists who attacked their