By His Light: Character and Values in the Service of God
Alon Shvut (Gush Etzion) · 2003
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Aharon Lichtenstein
Aharon Lichtenstein
1933 CE–2015 CE · Modern · Paris
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein (1933–2015) was a leading Modern Orthodox thinker and rosh yeshivah of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut. Born in Paris and educated in the United States under Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Lichtenstein moved to Israel in 1971 and became one of the most influential figures in Religious Zionist Torah scholarship. He was known for his sophisticated integration of Jewish philosophy, ethics, and halakhic reasoning, and for his ability to address contemporary moral questions through rigorous Talmudic methodology. His students included some of the leading rabbinic voices of Israel's religious community. Lichtenstein was admired for his integrity, intellectual humility, and passionate advocacy for a Judaism that combined unwavering commitment to Jewish law with openness to wider culture and ethical complexity.
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Born in Paris in 1933.
About Paris
Paris, on the Seine, is the capital of France. Its university grew out of the cathedral schools around 1150 and was chartered in 1200; the Sorbonne, a theological college founded around 1257, later lent it its name. The Academy of Sciences, founded in 1666 under Louis XIV, helped make the city a leading centre of European science. Paris had a medieval Jewish community, whose copies of the Talmud were burned in 1242 after the Disputation of Paris, and today it has Europe's largest Jewish population. In 1884 the Islamic reformers Muhammad Abduh and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani published their journal al-Urwa al-Wuthqa there, and in the 1950s the Sri Lankan monk Walpola Rahula studied Mahayana Buddhism at the Sorbonne.
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Dov Berish Elefant, Solomon Klonitzky-Kline, Louis Ginzberg, Moshe Soloveichik, Chaim Heller, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, Mordecai Kaplan, Menachem Mendel Eckstein, Hirsh Dachowitz, Reuven Grozovsky, Avraham Kalmanowitz, Shlomo Heiman, Aharon Kotler, Moshe Feinstein, Saul Lieberman, Yochanan Perlow, Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Works(3)
The Gestalt of the Halakhaגשטאלט של ההלכה
Alon Shvut (Gush Etzion) · 1994
Essay on the structure and organic wholeness of halakhic thinking, exploring how individual laws relate to underlying principles and values.
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By His Light: Character and Values in the Service of Godבאורו
Alon Shvut (Gush Etzion) · 2003
Collection of essays on Jewish ethics, spirituality, and the integration of halakha with moral personality and character development.
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