Daniel Stein (rabbi)

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Daniel Stein (born July 1976) is a Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York City where he holds the Perez and Frieda Friedberg Chair in Talmud. [1] [2] [3]

Stein received his undergraduate degree from Yeshiva University in 1998 and semikha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 2002, where he studied under Rabbi Hershel Schachter. At RIETS, Stein was a member of the Wexner Semikha Honors Program and later the Wexner Kollel Elyon led by Rabbi Mordechai Willig and Rabbi Michael Rosensweig.

As a student at Kollel Elyon, Stein was the subject of controversy when he argued in Beit Yitzchak, the seminary's student publication, that the biblical prohibition against murder applied only murdering a Jew, and that the prohibition against murdering a non-Jew was a rabbinic injunction. At the time, Rabbi Irving Greenberg suggested that the article indicated a "lack of awareness of the fullness of humanity of gentiles." Yeshiva University Rosh Yeshiva Norman Lamm defended Stein, noting that the article was a theoretical study and that "had the author had more experience, he would’ve made sure to say the great majority of authorities are against this." [4]

Stein was appointed as a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 2009.

Stein has also been the director of the 4th Year Halakha Lemaaseh Program at RIETS since 2007, where he teaches specialized areas of practical halakha and administers tests for ordination, a post which was previously held by Rabbi Yaakov Haber and before that Rabbi Solomon Drillman. [5] [6]

Since 2014, Stein has been the Rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Chesed, known as the Ridniker Shteibel, a historic synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he succeeds Rabbi Shmuel Orenstein, a disciple of Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, and Rabbi Binyomin Halberstam, a descendant of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam. [7] Before that, Stein was the founding Rabbi of Kehillas Beis Sholom in Clifton, New Jersey, where he served for four years. [8]

Stein is a prolific scholar, with hundreds of lectures and articles on Jewish law and thought available online. He is the author of a sefer entitled, Chamudei Daniel, which contains essays on the weekly Torah portion. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "RIETS Roshei Yeshiva".
  2. ↑ "YU News". 22 March 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  3. ↑ "Philadelphia Jewish Link" . Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "Critics Slam Rabbi, YU Over Article on Gentiles". 16 January 2004.
  5. ↑ "RIETS Faculty".
  6. ↑ "RIETS".
  7. ↑ "Ridniker Shteibel".
  8. ↑ "Kehillas Beis Sholom".
  9. ↑ "Yeshiva Link".
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