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Rabbi Rakeffet's halakhic innovation of "Presumed Dead; Place of Burial Unknown" (מקל'ן), is currently used by the IDF to declare a missing soldier "Presumed Dead" in similar cases. [14] Rabbi Rakeffet felt strongly that a documentary should be made about Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. After much effort, he found Ethan Isenberg to produce ...
Broadly speaking, before the Brisker method, Talmudic texts were taken at "face value" unless there was a compelling reason not to. If a contradiction between two texts was discovered, then it became necessary to reinterpret one or both texts to reconcile them, but there was no standard method by which to perform this reconciliation.
Rabbi Eliezer Silver, as Rav of Harrisburg, served as spiritual leader of Kesher Israel from 1907 to 1925. [11] [27] For the larger community, Silver established a Chevra Shas (Talmud Study Society), a Hebrew Free Loan Society, a Hachnossas Orchim (hospitality) organization, and the Harrisburg Hebrew School.
Moshe Aharon Poleyeff (1888 – 1966) was an American rabbi, teaching at Yeshiva University (YU) in New York where he was a Rosh Yeshiva for over 45 years, [3] training generations of rabbis, including Mordechai Gifter.
Immediately after his arrival, Revel enrolled in New York's RIETS yeshiva. He received a Master of Arts degree from New York University in 1909. Around this time, one of America's senior rabbis and president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, Rabbi Bernard Levinthal of Philadelphia, visited the yeshiva and, after discussing Talmudic topics with the new student, invited him to come to ...
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Moshe Soloveichik (1879 – January 21, 1941) was an Orthodox rabbi . He was Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University .
One of these works centers on and is largely the work of Rabbi Irving Greenberg. Among the distinguished rabbis and Torah teachers included in these conversations are Rabbis Shlomo Riskin , Berel Wein , Shubert Spero , Adin Steinsaltz , David Hartman , Nahum Rabinovich , Aharon Rakeffet , Chaim Eisen , Mendel Lewittes , Nathan Lopes Cardozo ...
Pages in category "Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary semikhah recipients" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .