Elisha Ancselovits | Emory University (original) (raw)

Elisha teaches Halakha interdisciplinarily as Practical Philosophy at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and in Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, and at additional Orthodox and secular Israeli institutions. He has been a postdoctoral and guest researcher and lecturer in both Jewish studies and in legal theory at various universities in different continents and is currently a fellow at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Elisha, who holds rabbinic and judicial ordination (Yoreh Yoreh and Yadin Yadin), has a Ph.D. on the Jewish Law tradition and an M.A. in Modern Jewish Studies aside from a graduate studies background in Medieval Jewish History. In addition, he has taught Biblical and Second Temple Law, critical Talmud, Zohar through contemporary Orthodox Jewish Thought, and Modern Jewish and European Philosophy. Most recently, he has advanced his mentoring of men and women sages by opening Bet Midrash Hukkim Hakhamim. This includes a kollel in Jerusalem for future rabbis and an international online program with conferences for future dayyanim.

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