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The peoples behind Eretz Hemdah
Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg.
Rabbi Moshe EhrenreichGraduate of Yavne Hesder Yeshiva and a Rosh Metivta there for more than 20 years. Dayyan in the conversion court of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Senior lecturer at Nishmat.
Rabbi Yosef Carmel Rav Yosef Gershon Carmel was born in Jerusalem in 1953.
He is currently the Av Beit Din of the Beit Din, Mishpat VeHalacha BeYisrael, as well as the Rabbinical Dean of the Eretz Hemdah, Institute for advanced Jewish studies in Jerusalem.
In 1987, with the partnership of Rav Moshe Ehrenreich and under the Presidency of HaGaon Maran Israeli zal, they founded the Eretz Hemdah Institute.
Rav Yosef Carmel is a graduate of the Nir Kiryat Arba Hesder Yeshiva and was Rosh Metivta there for more than ten years.
He was a combat soldier in the IDF during the Yom Kippur war as well as the first Lebanon war.
Rav Carmel was Rosh Yeshiva at "Machon Meir" during 1985 - 1986 and is a senior lecturer at Jerusalem College for Tanach since 1985.
Rav Carmel heads the 'Ask the Rabbi' program which provides Halachic answers in English to questioners from around the world. To date, more than 10,000 replies have been sent out.
He is the author of many articles on Tanach and Halacha and of the book Tsofenat Eliyahu a commentary on the Vilna Gaon’s commentary on the Shulkhan Arukh Hoshen Mishpat, laws of financial damages and six volumes of "Reponsa B'mareh Habazk".
Rabbi Dr. Nachum L. Rabinovitch Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat HaHesder “Birkat Moshe” in Ma’aleh Adumim, one of the prominent Halachic authorities of the Religious Zionist movement. Member of the responsa Bemareh HaBazak’s Halachah Committee. He is also a member of the rabbinic board of Eretz Hemdah’s Beit Din Mishpat VeHalacha BeYisrael.
Rav Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch was born in 5688 (1928) in Montreal, Canada.
He learned at the yeshivah of the late Rav Pinchas Hirschsprung, Montreal’s chief rabbi. Afterwards, he learned at Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore under the leadership of Rav Yitzchak Ruderman (who was related to his wife, Rachel Shuchatowitz). He received smichah from Rav Ruderman. Concurrent to his yeshivah studies, Rabbi Rabinovitch received a Master’s degree in Mathematics.
Rabbi Rabinovitch served as a congregational rabbi in Texas, Charleston, and subsequently in Toronto. While serving as a pulpit rabbi, he served as a university lecturer and completed his doctorate. He later served as a head of a rabbinical seminary in the United Kingdom.
In 5743 (1983), he and his family made aliyah. He was invited by the heads of Yeshivat HaHesder Birkat Moshe in Ma’aleh Adumim to join them as a Rosh Yeshiva.
Rav Rabinovitch is one of the great experts on the Rambam’s teachings and he has already spent many years writing a commentary on the Rambam’s Mishne Torah. The sefer, called Yad Peshutah, also delves in the different versions of the text. Up to now, he has published his commentary on Madah, Ahavah, Zemanim, Nashim, Mishpatim, Nezikim, and the laws of Shmittah and Yovel. Rabbi Rabinovitch’s method of elucidating the topic is by explaining the Rambam by comparing other sources that the Rambam wrote, together with the Rishonim and Geonim whose approach was similar to the Rambam’s method of deriving the halachah, such as Rabbeinu Chananel and the Rif.
Rabbi Rabinovitch’s halachic method is unique. He is considered a daring halachic authority that is lenient in various areas. He is well known for his support of embracing science as an integral part of one’s Jewish personality.
His Written Works:
* Yad Peshuta – on the Rambam’s Mishnah Torah; * Melumdei Milchamah – responsa on the issues faced by religious soldiers; * Iyunim BeMishnato Shel HaRambam (Studies in the Rambam’s Methodology); * Darkah shel Torah – chapters on the Halachic method; * Hadar Itamar – concluding words on Talmudic Tractates; * Siyach Nachum – response; * Probability and statistical inference in ancient and medieval Jewish literature, University of Toronto Press, 1973
Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg .
Rabbi Yitzchak SheilatRav Yitzchak Sheilat, (born in 5706, 1946), is one of the founders of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe in Maaleh Adumim where he serves as Rosh Metivta. At the yeshiva he also researches, translates and edits the Rambam’s writings.
Rav Sheilat learned at the Maaleh School and from 1960 learned at the Yeshivot Merkaz HaRav, Kerem BeYavneh, and HaKotel. Most of his erudition was culled from Merkaz HaRav, where he learned from Rav Tzvi Yehudah HaCohen Kook, who he was privileged to learn with as a chevruta [study partner] for a while, as well as with Rav David Cohen, “HaRav HaNazir.”
Rav Sheilat served in the Nachal unit of the IDF and later received his Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences from the Hebrew University.
In 5737 (1977), Rav Sheilat, together with Rav Chaim Sabato, founded Yeshivat Birkat Moshe in Maaleh Adumim. He moved there and serves as a Rosh Metivta till today. In addition, he teaches Jewish Thought and Halachic Talmudic topics.
In order to fulfill the Rambam’s injunction that Torah teachers should not receive monetary compensation, Rav Sheilat serves as the yeshiva’s librarian.
Rav Sheilat published an exacting and illuminated edition of the Igrot HaRambam. In his edition, Rav Sheilat retranslated and explained the Rambam’s introduction, along with part of the Rambam’s Commentary on the Mishnah. In addition to his delving in the Rambam’s teachings, he continues to write and teach on various topics in Halachah and Faith. Among all he has done, he served as the first editor of the periodical, Tzohar.
Rav Sheilat teaches (periodically) Jewish Thought at Eretz Hemdah since 5749 (1989).
Rabbi Israel RosenRabbi Yisrael Rozen heads the Zomet Institute for Halachah and Technological issues and is the editor-in-chief of the annual periodical, Techumim, which Zomet publishes. He is the Halachic – Technical advisor of the Halachah Committee of the responsa BaMareh HaBazaq. A founder of the Conversion Authority of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, he also serves as one of its dayanim.
Rav Rozen was born in Tel Aviv in 5701 (1941). He learned in Yeshivat HaYishuv HeChadash and in Kerem BeYavneh, and is one of the founders of the kollel there. Subsequently, he learned electronics at the Jerusalem College of Technology and Bar-Ilan University. Rav Rozen is married with five children and resides in Alon Shevut. Rav Rozen deals in numerous fields: a discoverer of solutions to issues in halachah and technology (at the Zomet Institute) – applying halachic concepts to technological devices (mainly electronic) in order to allow their use within the halachic framework; a popular writer who appears in the Israeli daily, Yediot Acharonot’s Website, Ynet; a researcher of Biblical topics, writes commentaries on the Tanach according to Chazal and more.
In April ’08, Rav Rozen was awarded the Lev Prize, which was granted by the Jerusalem College of Technology for his contributions to Torah and Science.
Rabbi Menachem Jacobowitz.
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