Itamar Rosensweig is a rabbi and maggid shiur at

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and a dayan (rabbinic judge) at the Beth Din of America, where he also serves as the editor of ''Jewishprudence: Thoughts on Jewish Law and Beth Din Jurisprudence.'' Rabbi Rosensweig is also the Rabbi at The Merion Shtiebel in

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, and teaches Jewish Business Law and Ethics at YU's Sy Syms School of Business. Previously, he taught an advanced

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shiur at

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's Kraft Center, and presently serves as the maggid shiur at the University of Pennsylvania Hillel. He is the son of Rabbi Michael Rosensweig, and grandson of

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Education and Teaching

Itamar Rosensweig received his BA, with honors, in

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and

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

from

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, his MA in philosophy from

, and his

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, Yoreh Yoreh and Yadin Yadin, from the

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS ) is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (YU). It is located along Amsterdam Avenue in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Named after Yitzchak Elchanan S ...

, where he was a fellow of the Wexner Kollel Elyon and Editor in Chief of the Beit Yitzchak Journal of Talmudic and Halakhic Studies. He also holds an PhD in medieval

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from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of

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and a PhD in philosophy from

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. He studied

closely with Rabbi

Aharon Lichtenstein Aharon Lichtenstein (; May 23, 1933 – April 20, 2015) was an Orthodox rabbi, Israel Prize laureate and rosh yeshiva who was an authority in Jewish law (''Halakha''). Biography Aharon Lichtenstein was born to Yechiel Lichtenstein and Bluma née ...

Yeshivat Har Etzion Yeshivat Har Etzion (YHE; ), commonly known in English as "Gush" and in Hebrew as "Yeshivat HaGush", is a Hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. It is considered one of the leading institutions of advanced T ...

and the history of Halakha with Professor

Haym Soloveitchik Haym Soloveitchik (; born September 19, 1937) 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 ...

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. He is a close disciple of and studied for over a decade with his father, Rabbi Michael Rosensweig. He taught an advanced

shiur at

's Kraft Center, a weekly chazarah shiur at the

, and served as the rabbinic scholar at

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in Englewood, NJ.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosensweig, Itamar Living people American Modern Orthodox rabbis Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary semikhah recipients Yeshiva University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American rabbis Yeshivat Har Etzion alumni Rabbinic judges