SIMCHA FISHBANE Ph.D. in Social Anthropology of Religion at Concordia University, Montreal Canada, is Executive Assistant to the President of Touro College and Professor of Jewish Studies. He has published extensively on Jewish subjects texts and their meaning. His publications include Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Judaism and The Boldness of A Halakhist, An Analysis of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein, The Arukh Hashulhan.