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Any acknowledgment in a series of collected essays whose publication stretches back some forty-five years should begin with the ‘creditors’ who can never be repaid, not simply because they are no longer with us, but because their perspective and way of thinking are embedded in everything that one has written. First and foremost is my father, who bestowed upon me no less than a decade and a half of talmudic instruction—and much more; then Jacob Katz, from whom I learnt historical method. I am also under obligation to Hayyim Hillel Ben-Sasson and Joshua Prawer, under whom I studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Not all learning takes place in the classroom, and I would be sorely remiss if I did not record my obligations to Michael Bernstein, Eliezer Shimshon Rosenthal, Shraga Abramsom, and Saul Lieberman. For reasons best known to them (certainly not because of any merit of mine), they privileged me with hundreds of hours of conversation. What those sessions imparted to me, both in knowledge and method, has nourished every aspect of my scholarly life.
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