FALL 2017 Issue 50.3 Editor’s note “these people”: or, amalkhut shel hesed, if you can keep it Why sheva berakhot? – from the inclusion of “new faces” to an “act of lovingkindness” – or vice versa? By Professor Stuart S. Miller The mystic paradox in the stories of r. Nahman of bratslav: a jamesian overview By Dr. Dorit Lemberger Narrative, identity, and jewish ethics By Rabbi Anthony Knopf Survey of recent halakhic periodical literature By Rabbi J. David Bleich