The articles in this volume:
Labor as a value in the Talmudic and Midrashic literature - M. Ayali
The magical and Neoplatonic interpretations of the Kabbalah in the Renaissance - M. Idel
"Mishnat Ha-Met" and "Seder rehizah gedolah" attributed to Hillel the elder - M. Benayahu
The exile of Israel and the exile of the Shechina in "Or Yakar" of Rabbi Moses Cordovero - B. Sack
The Minsk debate - R. Elior
The place of Judaism in Jonathan Gottfried Herder's philosophy of history - Z. Levy
Judaism, nationalism and humanism in the work of Yehezkel Kaufmann - E. Luz
There are summeries in English for all the articles at the end of the volume.