IntroductionDivrei Berakhah: Opening BlessingSharon Cohen AnisfeldMessage from the EditorsArthur Green, Michael Fishbane, and Jonathan D. SarnaSection I: Memory and History1. A Home for Jewish Learning in “The City on the Hill”: The History of Hebrew CollegeDaniel Judson2. Four Men Entered an OrchardArnold J. Band3. Girsa de-Yanquta, or Hebrew in the Afternoon: A Memoir of the Prozdor in WorcesterIra Robinson4. Israel Studies and the Hebrew (Teachers) College: A MemoirIlan Troen5. What They Celebrated, He Mourned: Arnold Wieder’s The Early Jewish Community of Boston’s North End (1962)Jonathan D. Sarna6. Searching for Treasure: A Journey Back to Hebrew CollegeDaniel Klein7. Across Five PesaḥsShayna RhodesSection II: Studies in Jewish Thought, History, and Literature8. The Fate of the First ClothingRachel Adelman9. Seeking SarahAnne Lapidus Lerner10. Jacob and Esau: Twinship and Identity ConfusionGeorge Savran11. The Book of Judith: A Literary AppreciationJudith A. Kates12. A Woman Walks into a Bar: Betrothal Stories in Bavli QiddushinJane L. Kanarek13. What Problem? Medieval and Contemporary Responses to the “Oven of Akhnai” StoryMichael Rosenberg14. Legal Authority, Memory, and Moral Worthiness: Tosefta Pisḥa 4.13-14 and Later Rabbinic TraditionsMichael Fishbane15. Mystical Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Cordovero and Tomer Devorah as Commentary on the Idra RabbahMelila Hellner-Eshed16. R. Levi Yiẓḥaq of Zelichow and His Quest for Leadership in the Early Hasidic MovementAvraham Yiẓḥaq (Arthur) Green17. “Seek Me and Live”: Reflections on the Spiritual JourneyAriel Evan Mayse18. Rabbi Elimelekh Shapiro of Grodzisk: Sketching a Nineteenth-Century Hasidic LeaderNehemia Polen19. The Lives of Berish Ba‘al TeshuvahAvinoam J. Stillman20. Contemporary Israeli Explorations of Spiritual and Psychological Insights in the Tales of Rabbi Naḥman of BratslavDavid C. Jacobson21. A Mystical Reunion in Manitoba: Howard Thurman and Zalman Schachter-ShalomiOr N. Rose22. “Kakha Zeh Ḥinukhi”—“That Makes It Educational”: Parabolic Style in Kafka, Keret, and Castel BloomAbigail Esther GillmanSection III: Studies in Jewish Education23. Reading the Sefat Emet for Religious Consciousness: Modulations on Or ha-GanuzElie Holzer24. Growing Up Jewish: Me’ah and American Jewish AdulthoodDavid B. Starr25. Striving for Shlemut: Navigating Explicit and Implicit Religiosity in Jewish EducationMichael ShireContributors