Rabbi Shubert Spero (born September 23, 1923) [1] [2] is an American rabbi and author; he was Professor of Jewish Thought at Bar Ilan University.
Spero was born in New York City. He studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.S degree at City College of New York and attained an M.A and a PhD in philosophy at Western Reserve University. In 1947 he received smicha (ordination), and in 1950 became rabbi of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1983 with his wife and family he made aliyah to Israel settling in Jerusalem. Spero served as the Irving Stone Professor of Jewish Thought at Bar Ilan University. He was Rabbi Emeritus of his Cleveland community. He wrote extensively [3] on the subjects of halakha, ethics, the Holocaust, Jewish philosophy and the thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
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Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty.
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Haym Soloveitchik is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi and historian. He is the only son of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He graduated from the Maimonides School which his father founded in Brookline, Massachusetts and then received his B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1958 with a major in History. After two years of post-graduate study at Harvard, he moved to Israel and began his studies toward an M.A. and PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, under the historian Professor Jacob Katz. He wrote his Master's thesis on the Halakha of gentile wine in medieval Germany. His doctorate, which he received in 1972, concentrated on laws of pawnbroking and usury. He is known to many as Dr. Gra"ch, after his great-grandfather for whom he is named, Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, who was known as the Gra"ch.
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