OR HAMIZRACH, the Hebrew Torah Journal of the Religious Zionists of America has released its Summer 5766 issue, the seventh in the reconstituted series under the editorship of Rabbis Elchanan Adler and Nathaniel Helfgot. The volume contains thirteen essays authored by Torah scholars from Israel and the United States in the areas of Talmud, Halakha, Tanakh and Jewish Thought. The articles include: “The Musaf Sacrifice During the Desert Era”, “Beneficial Actions Taken on Another’s Behalf in His Absence”, “The Wearing of the Talit by an Unmarried Young Man” and “The Status of the Older Person in Halakhah”.  The volume also includes a section with readers’ letters and short communications on assorted topics. As a special bonus, the issue contains a subject and author index of essays that have appeared in OR HAMIZRACH over the past eighteen years, enabling readers to mine the rich archives of Torah insights that have graced this Torah journal for the bulk of the past two decades. 

A new component of OR HAMIZRACH features a compendium of five selected essays, translated into English, drawn from past issues of OR HAMIZRACH and the current one. The following is a partial list of articles: “Settling Eretz Yisrael in Contemporary Times”, “The Rambam’s Position Regarding Pesach Sheni”, “The Relationship Between Ein Kelokeinu and Pittum Ha-Ketoret”. Entitled “From the Pages of OR HAMIZRACH: An English Compendium”, this volume offers the broader English-speaking public a taste of the high level of Torah scholarship that has been the hallmark of OR HAMIZRACH since its inception.

Religious Zionists of America Chairman Martin Oliner notes, “this continues the resurgence of RZA as the driving force behind the Orthodox community’s  support of and involvement with the State of Israel as we bring scholarly Zionist writings to the religiously observant and a religious perspective to the unaffiliated.”

This volume is available for purchase through the RZA office at 212-465-9234, and at fine Jewish bookstores across the country.