Rav Shagar zekher tsadik li-vrakhah
Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, head of the Siach Yitzhak yeshiva and one of the most creative minds in contemporary Judaism, died today.
I only heard him speak a few times - he was never allowed to teach at the yeshiva I attended - but my two brothers studied at his yeshiva for a while, and my wife learned Hassidut from him at Midreshet Lindenbaum. I think it's fair to say he was the only rosh yeshiva to seriously consider himself post-modern.
I only heard him speak a few times - he was never allowed to teach at the yeshiva I attended - but my two brothers studied at his yeshiva for a while, and my wife learned Hassidut from him at Midreshet Lindenbaum. I think it's fair to say he was the only rosh yeshiva to seriously consider himself post-modern.
posted by manuscriptboy | 4:57 PM
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Was he old or sick? Sorry to hear the news.
He died at the age of 58 of pancreatic cancer.
According to an E-mail sent out by R. Medan not long before R. Shagar's passing. R. shagar did in fact teach a yeshivat har etzion at some point.
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