Correspondence
Letter from Prof. Koppel about Inaugural Higayon Conference (1992)
Dear Rabbi Lamm, 7 Iyar 5752 May 10, 1992 We are very pleased that you have tentatively agreed to participate in the First International Higayon Conference on the use of modern concepts for the understanding of Talmudic ideas. The conference will take place from 29 Tishrei to 1 Cheshvan 5753 (October 26–28, 1992) in the auditorium of Beit Midrash L’Torah in Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem. A special closed session will be held at the estate of Mr. Meir Brachfeld in Motza on the afternoon of the third day. There will be a total of about thirty presentations, each allotted 25–30 minutes; if you feel this is inadequate, we can allot you extra time or schedule parallel sessions. Because the invited speakers have not yet submitted titles, it is hard at this stage to give a precise picture of the direction the conference will take. The fields of those who have tentatively agreed to attend are distributed roughly evenly among philosophy, economics, science, mathematics, and rabbinics. They include: Rabbanim: Norman Lamm (Yeshiva U.), D. Berkovich (Elul), M. Feldman (Bar-Ilan), N. Rabinovich (Birkat Moshe), S. Spero (Bar-Ilan), N. Taylor (Bar-Ilan), E. Zini (Technion); Philosophy: Y. Gellman (Ben-Gurion), A. Sagi (Bar-Ilan), D. Schwartz (Bar-Ilan), Z. Shteinfeld (Bar-Ilan), Y. Silman (Bar-Ilan), M. Steiner (Hebrew U.); Mathematics: Y. Aumann (Hebrew U.), Y. Choueka (Bar-Ilan), G. Ehrlich (Bar-Ilan), S. Epstein (Seton Hall), A. Fraenkel (Weizmann), E. Merzbach (Bar-Ilan); Economics: S. Gottesman (Columbia), N. Leff (Columbia), A. Levine (Yeshiva U.), Y. Lieberman (Bar-Ilan); Science: M. Kaveh (Bar-Ilan), Z. Mendlowitz (Howard U.), M. Schwartz (Jerusalem Torah College), M. Sprecher (Bar-Ilan). We urge you to confirm your participation in the conference as soon as possible. Please submit a tentative title and a brief abstract, and include any special requests you may have regarding the length and timing of your lecture, special equipment, etc. Sincerely, Moshe Koppel Department of Mat…
