Emanuel Quint (; 1930-2018) was a

rabbi A rabbi (; ) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as ''semikha''—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of t ...

, lawyer and author of the ten volume ''A Restatement of Rabbinic Civil Law'', parts of which have been serialized in

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. He was the dean and

Rosh Kollel A kollel (also kolel) (, , , , a "gathering" or "collection" f scholars is an institute for full-time, advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature. Like a yeshiva, a kollel features shiurim (lectures) and learning ''sedarim'' (session ...

of the Jerusalem Institute of Jewish Law, which he co-founded with Rabbi

Adin Steinsaltz Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (; 11 July 19377 August 2020) was an Israeli Chabad Chasidic rabbi, teacher, philosopher, social critic, author, translator and publisher. His '' Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud'' was originally published in ...

. According to his publisher, Rabbi Quint "dedicated his life to training and inspiring those of all ages who lack the language skills, scholarly background, and general training to study the sources of their Jewish tradition." He was chairman of the Board of Education and later president of the

Yeshiva of Flatbush The Yeshivah of Flatbush (YOF) is a Modern Orthodox private Jewish day school located in the Midwood, Brooklyn, Midwood section of Brooklyn, New York. It educates students from age 2 to age 18 and includes an early childhood center, an elementa ...

in his native New York, as well as one of the founders of

Touro College Touro University is a private Jewish university system headquartered in New York City, with branches throughout the United States as well as one each in Germany, Israel and Russia. It was founded by Bernard Lander in 1971 and named for Isaac a ...

. In 1984 he retired from the law office of Quint, Mark and Chill, which he had co-founded in 1955, and moved with his wife, Rena Quint, a child Holocaust survivor, to live and teach in Jerusalem.https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/In-appreciation-Rabbi-Emanuel-Quint-561936

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