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Our Roshei Yeshiva: Reflections on the Lives, Thought, and Leadership of Rabbi Yehuda Amital zt"l and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l
Dr. David J. Landes z”l attended Yeshivat Har Etzion for several years in the 1970s and remained an active alumnus of the yeshiva until his untimely death in 2019. Over the course of more than four decades, he developed close relationships with the yeshiva’s founding Roshei Yeshiva, Rav Yehudah Amital zt”l and Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l . This book collects annotated versions of talks that he delivered several weeks after each Rosh Yeshiva passed away.
Dr. David J. Landes z”l was an independent scholar and investor living in New York City and Teaneck, New Jersey. He held a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.
Dr. David J. Landes z”l was an independent scholar and investor living in New York City and Teaneck, New Jersey. He held a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.
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Published September 13, 2022
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June 23, 2023So, I mean, first of all, thank you to Dr. Yitz Landes for putting this volume together and publishing it with footnotes and giving me access, by proxy, to all of these incredible people--the Roshei Yeshiva of Gush and your father.
It was such a fascinating and moving read to learn more about the Roshei Yeshiva of Gush and, specifically, getting a sense of their theology and how they see both God's will and our obligation
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And there's a part of me that's furious that this kind of Torah wasn't really accessible to me because of my gender AND because no one told me that this kind of thinking and relationship existed. I had good teachers and the paucity of what I was exposed to because of my gender never ceases to anger me.
And the way R. Lichtenstein talks about the intellectual work of learning Torah as THE work of a Jew in the world, something that is attributed to his mother as well as to his teachers, just makes me wonder what he does with the non-obligation that women have in learning Torah. How do you square that? And you can see the 20th century work to nuance that p'tor/prohibition and yet AND YET.
I have a lot of feelings and this book, like so many, is the catalyst rather than the cause.
It was such a fascinating and moving read to learn more about the Roshei Yeshiva of Gush and, specifically, getting a sense of their theology and how they see both God's will and our obligation
----
And there's a part of me that's furious that this kind of Torah wasn't really accessible to me because of my gender AND because no one told me that this kind of thinking and relationship existed. I had good teachers and the paucity of what I was exposed to because of my gender never ceases to anger me.
And the way R. Lichtenstein talks about the intellectual work of learning Torah as THE work of a Jew in the world, something that is attributed to his mother as well as to his teachers, just makes me wonder what he does with the non-obligation that women have in learning Torah. How do you square that? And you can see the 20th century work to nuance that p'tor/prohibition and yet AND YET.
I have a lot of feelings and this book, like so many, is the catalyst rather than the cause.
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