Torah of the Mind, Torah of the Heart Divrei Torah of the Talner Rebbe

by Twersky, Yitzhak; Shapiro, David; Twersky, Meyer

• ISBN13: 9789655243161
• ISBN10: 9655243168
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-10-03
• Publisher: Urim Publications

Summary

Torah of the Heart, Torah of the Mind includes various shiurim from Rav Yitzhak Twersky on the weekly Torah portions. Rabbi Twersky’s teachings represent a rare synthesis of three intellectual approaches within the Torah world: the Chassidic tradition on which he was nurtured from childhood at home; the scholarly/academic approach which he mastered in Harvard University and Hebrew University; and the Lithuanian yeshivah approach which he internalized by studying weekly for decades with his father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Author Biography

Rabbi David Shapiro received rabbinic ordination and an M.A. degree in Jewish History from Yeshiva University, and also studied at Harvard under the mentorship of Rabbi Dr. Yitzhak Twersky. He was a member of the faculty of the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts, and served as its Principal 1978-1999. Rabbi Dr Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky (1930–1997) zt"l was the Talner Rebbe of Boston. He also held the Littauer Chair in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Philosophy at Harvard University. He was a unique person in that his religious sensitivity, Chassidic roots, Maimonidean philosophical temperament, and personal piety were nourished and augmented by his unusual, wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary Torah erudition and creativity.