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Rabbi J. David Bleich is Professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University, as well as the Director of its Postgraduate Institute for the study of Talmudic Jurisprudence and Family Law. In addition, he holds the Herbert and Florence Tenzer Chair of Jewish Law and Ethics at Yeshiva University and is Professor of Law at the Cardozo School of Law. A foremost authority on Jewish law and ethics, he has written extensively on medical ethics, Jewish law and contemporary social issues, and the interface of Jewish law and the American legal system. As the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Jehuda in Manhattan, Rabbi Bleich teaches weekly Talmud classes and lectures on Jewish law and philosophy.
Price: $154.00
Pages: 152
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
Publication Date:
27 August 2015
ISBN: 9789004301771
Format: Hardcover
"A new short book, Where Halakhah and Philosophy Meet, part of a series on contemporary Jewish philosophers, shows how Rav Bleich powerfully combines these two areas of expertise, merging them into a sharp comment on contemporary religious politics...This short book showcases Rav Bleich’s amazing career of developing a completely traditional halachah within a modern scholarly framework." -Gil Student, Jewish Action: The Magazine of the Orthodox Union -- Reviews in Brief (2016)
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.
Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.