Eliyahu (Elijah, Elias, or Elie) Zevi Soloveitchik (Soloweyczyk) (; c. 1805–1881) was a Lithuanian rabbi, author and translator from

Slutsk Slutsk is a town in Minsk Region, in central Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Slutsk District, and is located on the Sluch (Belarus), Sluch River south of the capital Minsk. As of 2025, it has a population of 59,450. Geography ...

. Soloveitchik was a grandson of Rabbi

Chaim Volozhin Chaim of Volozhin (also known as Chaim ben Yitzchok of Volozhin or Chaim Ickovits; 21 January 1749 – 14 June 1821)Jewish Encyclopedia Bibliography: Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, pp. 347–349; idem, Kiryah Ne'emanah, pp. 156–158; L ...

(b. 1749) and the uncle of Rabbi

Yosef Dov Soloveitchik Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (born 1820 in Nesvizh, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire; died 1 May 1892 in Brest-Litovsk, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire) was the author of Beis Halevi, by which name he is better known among Talmudic scholars. He wa ...

, the Beis Halevi (b. 1820). In 1870 he published a Hebrew commentary on the Gospel of Matthew called ''Kol Kore'' (The Calling Voice) which was translated into French, German and English as ''The Bible, the Talmud and the Gospel''. The work followed the approach of

Jacob Emden Jacob Emden, also known as the Yaʿavetz (June 4, 1697 – April 19, 1776), was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed traditional Judaism in the face of the growing influence of the Sabbatean movement. He was widely acclaimed for ...

and sought to explain the Talmud to Christians and the Gospel to Jews and to demonstrate the common grounds of belief.Pinchas Lapide -Israelis, Jews, and Jesus 1979 - Page 112 "The first modern commentary on the Gospels in Hebrew was written by an Orthodox rabbi, Dr. Elie Soloweyczyk, ... and later translated into German under the title The Bible, the Talmud, and the Gospel," He also published a commentary on the Yad Hachazakah of Maimonides. His English translation of the Mishneh Torah was completed in 1857 and published in England in 1863 by Thomas William Nicholson of London. In his later life he became blind. Eliyahu Zevi Soloveitchik was the father of Simchah Ha-Levi Soloveitchik (c. 1830-1921), who emigrated to Jerusalem where he was called "The Londoner." His son was a Jerusalem community worker and pharmacist known as Zalman Yoseph Soloveitchik (b. 1874) who was the father of Yitzchak Leib (b. 1895) who emigrated to New York and changed the family name to Salovey; he was known for his work caring for the infirm and elderly of the community. His daughter Chaya Sarah married Rabbi Mordechai Yehoshua Kreuzer, one of the ancestors of the Kreuzer family. His son, Ronald (b. 1932), was a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and at the Technion in Haifa. Ronald is the father of

Peter Salovey Peter Salovey (; born February 21, 1958) is an American social psychologist and former academic administrator. He served as the 23rd president of Yale University from 2013 to 2024. He previously served as provost of Yale University from 2008 ...

(b. 1958), who became President of

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in 2013 and is the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology there.

English edition

*''The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels'' (Jewish Culture and Contexts), edited Shaul Magid, translator Jordan Gayle Levy, with

. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. ISBN 9780812250992

References

Thoughts on "Confrontation" and Sundry Matters, Part I
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