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Associate Professor
Areas of Interest:
Rabbinics, Jewish Law and Philosophy
Education:
B.A. (Yeshiva University), M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard University)
Publications:
Edited Books
Maimonides between Philosophy and Halakhah:听Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik鈥檚 Lectures on the Guide of the Perplexed at the Bernard Revel Graduate School, 1950-51.听Based on the notes of Rabbi Gerald (Yaakov) Homnick, Edited, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Lawrence Kaplan. Ktav Press, 2016 (256 pp.)
Essays
鈥淭he Purpose of the听Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides鈥� Theory of Parables, and Sceptical versus Dogmatic Readings of the听Guide,鈥澨齣苍听Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Hamburg. De Gruyter, Berlin (forthcoming) 听
鈥淵ehezkel Kaufmann, R. Nachman Krochmal, and the 鈥楢nxiety of Influence,鈥欌�� in听Yehezkel Kaufmann and the Reinvention of Jewish Biblical Exegesis, edited by B.听 Sommer, T. Staubli, and J. Jindo. Orbis Biblicus Orientalis (Academic Press Fribourg, 2017):122-146.
鈥淭he Ethos of Submission, Union with the Spirit of the Torah, and Confronting the Challenges of the Time: R. Abraham Isaiah Karelitz, the Hazon Ish,鈥� (in Hebrew) in听The Gdoilim: Leaders who Shaped Israeli Haredi Jewry, eds. Benjamin Brown and Nissim Leon (Jerusalem: Magnes Press and Van Leer Institute, 2017), pp. 479-519.
鈥�Mishneh Torah鈥檚 Structure and Meaning: A Counter Response to David Gillis鈥澨�Hakirah听21 (summer, 2016): 53-59.
鈥淪aving Knowledge鈥� (essay on Solomon Schechter鈥檚 鈥淣achman Krochmal and the 鈥楶erplexities of the Time鈥欌�欌��)听Jewish Quarterly Review听106:2 (spring, 2016):138-144.听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
鈥淲as Mendelssohn a Deist or a Theist? and Does It Matter?"听Moses Mendelssohn: Enlightenment, Religion, Politics, Nationalism, eds. Michah Gottlieb and Charles H. Manekin (Bethesda Maryland: University Press of Maryland, 2016), pp. 169-203.
Introduction to听Maimonides between Philosophy and Halakhah:听Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik鈥檚 Lectures on the Guide of the Perplexed at the Bernard Revel Graduate School, 1950-51.听Based on the notes of Rabbi Gerald (Yaakov Homnick) (Ktav Press, 2016), pp. 20-68.
鈥淔urther Reflections on Classification of听Mishneh Torah,鈥澨�Hakirah听19 (2015), pp. 29-70.
鈥淏ack to Zechariah Frankel and Louis Jacobs? On Integrating Academic Talmudic Scholarship into Israeli Religious Zionist Yeshivot and the Specter of the Historical Development of the Halakah,鈥澨�Modern Jewish Studies听14:1 (2015), pp. 89-108.
鈥淭horoughly Modern Maimonides?鈥澨齊eview essay of Recent Literature on Maimonides.听听Jewish Review of Books听 5:3 (Fall, 2014), pp. 12-15.
鈥淜ashrut and Kugel: Franz Rosenzweig鈥檚听The Builders,鈥澨�Jewish Review of Books听5:1听(winter, 2014), pp. 41-43.
鈥�More Nevukhe ha-Zeman,鈥澨�Enzyklopadie judischer Geschichte und Kultur, Band 4 (2014) Verlag J.B. Metzler, pp. 231-235.
鈥淓xposition as a High Art: Review Essay of Gerald J. (Ya鈥榓kov) Blidstein,听Society and Self: On the Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik,鈥澨�Hakirah听15 (summer, 2013), pp. 61-108
鈥淭he Ethical Theories of Rabbis Abraham Isaac Kook and Joseph B. Soloveitchik,鈥�
Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics, eds. Jonathan Crane and Elliot Dorff (Oxford, 2013), pp. 166-185.听
Review of听Eliyahu Stern,听The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism.听New Haven: Yale University Press 2013. Seforim Blog (online). November, 2013.
鈥淔aith, Rebellion, and Heresy in the Writings of R. Azriel of Gerona,鈥澨�Faith: Jewish Perspectives, eds. Avi Sagi and Dov Schwartz (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013), pp. 278-301.
鈥淩av Soloveitchik鈥檚听Lonely Man of Faith听in Contemporary Modern Orthodox Jewish Thought,鈥欌�� (in Hebrew),听Rabbi in the New World: The Influence of Rabbi J. B Soloveitchik on Culture, Education, and Jewish Thought, eds. Avinoam Rosenak and Naftali Rothenberg听(Magnes Press and Van Leer Institute, 2011), 147-176
鈥溾�橳he Starling鈥檚 Caw:鈥� Judah Halevi as Philosopher, Poet, and Pilgrim,鈥澨齊eview Essay of听Adam Shear,听The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900, Cambridge University Press, 2008; Raymond P. Scheindlin,听The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi鈥檚 Pilgrimage, Oxford University Press, 2008, and Hillel Halkin,听Yehuda Halevi. Next 0Book, Schocken, 2009.听Jewish Quarterly Review听101:1 (2011): 97-132. 听
鈥淔rom Cooperation to Conflict: Rabbi Professor Emanuel Rackman, Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and the Evolution of American Modern Orthodoxy,鈥澨�Modern Judaism听30:1 (Feb., 2010): 1-23.
鈥淎 Righteous Judgment on a Righteous People: Rabbi Isaac Hutner鈥檚 Implicit Theology of the Holocaust,鈥澨�Hakirah听10 (2010), pp. 101-116.
Translations from Hebrew
R. Nahman Krochmal, Selections from听Guide of the Perplexed of the Age听in听Jewish Legal Theories: Writings on State, Religion, and Morality, eds. Leora Batnitsky and听 Yonatan Brafman, Brandeis Library of Jewish Thought (University Press of New England, 2018), pp. 58-64.
Yehezkel Kaufmann, Review Essay of Freud鈥檚听Moses and Monotheism听(with Briah Kahana) in听Yehezkel Kaufmann and the Reinvention of Jewish Biblical Exegesis, edited by B.听 Sommer, T. Staubli, and J. Jindo. Orbis Biblicus Orientalis (Academic Press Fribourg, 2017): 318-336.