Remembering Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, intellectual wonder and Jewish landmark
MIDDLE ISRAEL: One would assume Steinsaltz spent his days and nights ensconced in his study like Lithuania’s Vilna Gaon, America’s Moshe Feinstein or Israel’s Elazar Shach, but he was different
‘THE TALMUD,’ once said Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, ‘is difficult to enter because it’s as if someone wrote math in the form of poetry; that is why I aim at a broad readership.’(photo credit: THE STEINSALTZ CENTER)ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
