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Other well-known rabbis who are reincarnationists include Rabbi Yonassan Gershom, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Talmud scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Rabbi DovBer Pinson, Rabbi David M. Wexelman, Rabbi Zalman Schachter, and many others.
Born in Jerusalem in 1937 to secular parents, Steinsaltz studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry at the Hebrew University, in addition to rabbinical studies.
The Steinsaltz editions of the Talmud include translation from the original Aramaic and a comprehensive commentary.
Steinsaltz completed his Hebrew edition of the entire Babylonian Talmud in November 2010, at which time Koren Publishers Jerusalem became the publisher of all of his works, including the Talmud.
While not without criticism ( e. g. by Neusner, 1998 ), the Steinsaltz edition is widely used throughout Israel, the United States and the world.
Over 2 million volumes of the Steinsaltz Talmud have been distributed to date.
The out of print Random House publication of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition is widely regarded as the most accurate and least redacted of any English language edition and is sought after on that basis by scholars and collectors.
Controversial Talmud passages previously obscured, omitted entirely or confined to footnotes in English translations like the Soncino Talmud, receive full exposition in the Steinsaltz Talmud.
Random House halted publication of the Steinsaltz Talmud after less than one-third of the English translation had been published.
The Steinsaltz editions of the Talmud have opened up the world of Talmud study to thousands of people outside the walls of the traditional yeshiva, including women, who traditionally were not taught Talmud.
In all, Steinsaltz has authored some 60 books and hundreds of articles on subjects including Talmud, Jewish mysticism, Jewish philosophy, sociology, historical biography, and philosophy.
Continuing his work as a teacher and spiritual mentor, Steinsaltz established a network of schools and educational institutions in Israel and the former Soviet Union.
Steinsaltz is also Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Hesder Tekoa.
Deeply involved in the future of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, Steinsaltz serves as the region's Duchovny Ravin ( Spiritual Rabbi ), a historic Russian title which indicates that he is the spiritual mentor of Russian Jewry.
In this capacity, Steinsaltz travelled to Russia and the Republics once each month from his home in Jerusalem.
Steinsaltz is sceptical about interfaith work.
Steinsaltz and his wife live in Jerusalem, and have three children and more than ten grandchildren.
His son, Rabbi Menachem Even-Israel, is the Director of Educational Programs at the Steinsaltz Center in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Rabbi Steinsaltz accepted the position as Nasi ( President ) of the 2004 attempt to revive the Sanhedrin.
Steinsaltz is a popular University and radio commentator.
Rabbi Steinsaltz has received many awards and prizes, among them the Israel Prize for Jewish studies in 1988.
On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.
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Rabbi Adin Even-Israel ( Steinsaltz ) ( 2010 )
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz ( Hebrew: עדין שטיינזלץ ) or Adin Even Yisrael ( Hebrew: עדין אבן ישראל ) ( born 1937 ) is a teacher, philosopher, social critic, and spiritual mentor, who has been hailed by Time magazine as a " once-in-a-millennium scholar ".
Regarding the access that his work provides, Rabbi Steinsaltz says:
* Rabbi Steinsaltz talks about the Torah to BBC ( sound file )
* Some articles written by Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz writes that " If the Bible is the cornerstone of Judaism, then the Talmud is the central pillar ... No other work has had a comparable influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life, shaping influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life " and states:
* Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, Adin Steinsaltz
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz the Nasi of the Sanhedrin said < cite > I'd be happy if in another few years these chairs are filled by scholars who are greater than us and we can say: ` I kept the chairs warm for you.
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz translates " Yeshu " as " Jesus " in his translation of the Talmud.
Much more recently, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has taken the title nasi, in an attempt to re-establish the Sanhedrin in its judicial capacity as the Supreme Court of Judaism.
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In the relatively calm academic world Jacob Neusner's combatively titled How Adin Steinsaltz Misrepresents the Talmud.
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This analysis is often described as " mathematical " in approach ; Adin Steinsaltz makes the analogy of the Amoraim as scientists investigating the Halakha, where the Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta and midrash are the phenomena studied.
* The Essential Talmud: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, Adin Steinsaltz ( Basic Books, 2006 ).
* The Talmud: A Reference Guide, Adin Steinsaltz ( Random House, 1996 ).
* Tributes to the Lubavitcher Rebbe by Menachem Begin, Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Israel Meir Lau, John Lewis, Joseph Lieberman, Yitzhak Rabin, Aviezer Ravitzky, Jonathan Sacks, Lawrence Schiffman, Adin Steinsaltz, Margaret Thatcher, Elie Wiesel and Elliot Wolfson.
The Jerusalem Talmud has also received some attention from Adin Steinsaltz, who plans a translation into modern Hebrew and accompanying explanation similar to his work on the Babylonian Talmud.
In the censorship and self-censorship of the Talmud which followed Adin Steinsaltz notes that references to Christianity were censored out of the Talmud, even where the reference was not negative.
*" The Essential Talmud ", Adin Steinsaltz, Basic Books ; 1984
** The Talmud: A Reference Guide, Adin Steinsaltz, ( Random House, 1996 ).
The wedding was presided over by Adin Steinsaltz.
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