Adin Steinsaltz

Adin Steinsaltz (Hebrew עדין אבן ישראל שטיינזלץ ) or Adin Even Yisrael ( born 1937 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli rabbi and Jewish scholar, teacher, philosopher and Talmudic commentator. He has published some 60 books and numerous articles. His previous major work is an adaptation and translation of the Talmud into Modern Hebrew with a private comment, thanks to which the Talmud wider stakeholders will be made available. He appears in Hebrew, English, French, Russian and Spanish and sold millions of copies. Time magazine called Steinsaltz 1988, the year that the Israel Prize, he was awarded as the " millennium scholar " (English " once-in -a -millennium scholar ").

Family and Education

Steinsaltz grew up as the only child of non-religious, socialist parents in Jerusalem. Become before his Bar Mitzvah religious, he attended a religious school and studied physics and chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At the same time he devoted himself to Jewish studies.

Rabbi Steinsaltz and his wife Chaya Sarah, a relative of the science fiction author Isaac Asimov, living in Jerusalem. They have three children and fifteen grandchildren.

Work

Steinsaltz founded as a young man their own schools in Israel, which are characterized by a relatively broad spectrum of religious schools and are visited by both Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox students. The Mekor Chaim schools are located in Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

1965 Steinsaltz began with the construction of the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications and working on his not uncontroversial Talmud translation, which he 45 years later, ended in November 2010. The Steinsaltz Talmud edition has, in addition to reimbursement of the Aramaic- Hebrew text by a modern Hebrew, a new layout and a new pagination on, as a Hebrew commentary by Steinsaltz at the point where in the traditional editions of the Talmud, based on the 1880s in the years published in Vilna edition is based, that of the great Jewish scholars of the Middle Ages, Rashi (1040-1105) stands.

Steinsaltz is a follower of the Lubavitcher movement and was a friend of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem last died in 1994 Mendel Schneerson. He supported the Chabad - Lubavitch organizations in the Soviet Union, where he founded a Jewish school in Moscow and St. Petersburg and acts as the spiritual mentor of the Russian Jews.

In 1999 he founded a yeshiva Hesder in Tekoa, a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied territories south of Jerusalem. In a Hesder Yeshiva Jewish studies with military service in the Israeli army are linked. A small number of selected graduates of Yeshiva Hesder are trained in Steinsaltzs Kollel friend and get after three years of studying the Semicha a rabbi.

In 2003, the Steinsaltz Center was inaugurated in Jerusalem. In 2005 Steinsaltz was elected Nasi of a year earlier newly built modern " Sanhedrin ", in June 2008, he announced his retirement from concern about the possible violations of halachic laws. Currently Steinsaltz is working on a translation of Bible commentaries, a new interpretation of Maimonides ' " Mishneh Torah" and a book on Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

According to the news magazine Der Spiegel, it may for Steinsaltz " despite normalization of relations Israel / Vatican ... between Jews and Christians ' be no peace and no dialogue ' ". He has also spoken out against the building of an Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York and called the project tactless (English "a lack of tact" ).

Awards

Steinsaltz has received numerous awards and honorary doctorates, 1988, it awarded for his commitment to Jewish education and formation of the Israel Prize, the highest award in Israel. In 2012 he received the "President 's Medal of Distinction ", the highest civilian award of Israel.

Works (selection)

In addition to the editions of the Talmud and other publications to the Talmud Steinsaltz has published numerous other books and articles.

  • Initials and Abbreviations in Chasidic and Kabbalistic Literature, Hebrew, 1968
  • Sefer hook ( Editor ), marking 150 years since the demise of Rabbi Zalman Scheur of Lyady, hebrew, 1969
  • The Rebbe: Thirty Years of Presidency (co -editor: Rabbi Hanoch Glitzenstein ), hebrew, 1980
  • The Long Shorter Way: Discourses on Chasidic Thought, English 1988
  • The Sustaining Utterance: Discourses on Chasidic Thought, English 1989, Russian 1996, Portuguese 2009
  • The Thirteen Petalled Rose, English 1980, reprint 2006, dutch, 1983, Russo 1985, French 1989 Portuguese in 1992, Hebrew 1998, Italian 2001 German ( The dreizehnblättrige rose. Among the secrets of the Kabbalah and its relevance to our lives ) .2011
  • The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (formerly Beggars and Prayers ), English 1979, French 1996, Russian 1998, Hebrew 1981
  • The Seven Lights: On the Major Jewish Festivals ( Co - author: Josy Eisenberg ), English 2000
  • Commentary on the Tanya, Hebrew since 1991, English since 2003
  • Les 5 Meguillot, illustrations, Yitzhak Tordjman, English and French in 1990
  • Biblical Images, Hebrew 1984, japanese 1984, French 1990, English 1994, Russian 1995, German 1996
  • The Woman of Valor, illustrations, Yitzhak Tordjman, French 1993, English 1994,
  • Tehillim ( Psalms ) in Hebrew and English 2005
  • Hebrew ( The Israel Government School of Tourism) 1966/1982
  • The Passover Haggadah, Hebrew 1979, 1998, English 1983
  • Teshuvah: A Guide for the Newly Observant Jew, English 1987, French, Hebrew 1982, Portuguese 1994
  • The Sociology of Ignorance ( Co - author: Amos Funkenstein ), hebrew, 1988, Russian 1997
  • Le Chandelier d'Or, French 1993, English 2000
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