CONTENTS

CONTENTS Commentary on the Sabbath Limits ( Tefyum Shabbat ) 1 M . Gil The Karaite Quarter in Jerusalem in the Light of their A . Grossman Eretz Israel in the Thought of Rashi 15 in Vision and Riddle 33 Y . Yahalom The Immigration of Rabbi Judah Halevi to Eretz Israel Z ^ dek , and His Influence in Eretz Israel 47 M . Idel R . Nathan ben Sa ^ dya Harar , Author of Sha ' arei Rabbis 59 M . M . A Sixteenth-Century Epistle to Jerusalem s Quarreling זיל Weinstein Ashkenazi Sage in the Lands of Islam 71 S . Z . Havlin Rabbi Yeljiel Ashkenazi and His Responsa : An Communities in the Ottoman Empire 133 in the History of Support for the Jews of Eretz Israel by J . R . Hacker Romaniote Jews in Sixteenth-Century Safed : A Chapter  אל הספר