Hamas Won’t Compromise with the Palestinian Authority, and Gazans Won’t Overthrow Hamas
Israel shouldn’t sacrifice its own security on the altar of Gazans’ living conditions.
July 24, 2017
A Forgotten Interview with One of the Great Talmudists of Pre-War Eastern Europe
The Rogachover Gaon.
Serving for most of his career as the rabbi of the ḥasidic congregation of the first Russian, later Latvian, city of Dvinsk (modern-day Daugavpils), Joseph Rozin (1858-1936) was widely considered the foremost rabbinic mind of his day. Rozin, known as the “Rogachover Gaon” (the talmudic genius from Rogachov), was frequently consulted by other rabbis for his opinions on halakhic matters, which he approached with sometimes stunning unconventionality. In 1933, M. Gurtz, a correspondent from the New York-based Yiddish paper Der Morgen-Zshurnal, conducted a rare interview with the Rogachover, reproduced in translation at the link below. In his introduction to the text, Marc Shapiro describes the sage’s “complete originality and independence as a legal scholar”:
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A Forgotten Interview with One of the Great Talmudists of Pre-War Eastern Europe
The Rogachover Gaon.