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The Revadim Staff
The founder of the program
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Rabbi Professor M. S. Feldblum was born in Lithuania
in 1928 and died in Israel in 2002.
In his childhood, he studied in the Wilkomir Yeshivah
in Lithuania, and spent his teenage years in the forests
of Poland fighting with the Polish partisans against
the Nazis. After the war, he emigrated to the United
States where he resided from 1948 until 1985. As a new
emigrant to the United States, he studied in the Telshe
Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio, but soon transferred to
the Rabbi Yitzhak Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yehiva
University in New York, where he was known as a remarkably
gifted student. After two years of study, he finished
his Rabbinical Ordination (Yoreh Yoreh, Yadin Yadin)
and served as a lecturer in Talmud at the Yeshiva until
1968. Upon completion of his Bachelor's and Doctoral
degrees at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva
University, he served as professor of Talmud at the
Graduate School until his aliyah to Israel in 1985.
After serving as guest lecturer in Jewish Studies
at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he joined the
staff of the Department of Talmud at Bar Ilan University
in 1985. There, he served in numerous capacities: professor
of Talmud, head of the Unit for Basic Studies in Judaism,
head of the Department of Talmud, and member of the
editorial board of the academic publication "Sidra."
In the course of his academic years, he served as mentor
for over 250 students for Master's Degrees, and 26 doctoral
students, and published many important articles. He
is known as one of the greats of Talmudic research in
this generation, and as the prime pupil of Rabbi Professor
Avraham Weiss, greatly furthered his approach to the
study of the literature of the Oral Tradition.
Chairman of the Academic Advisory
Committee
Dr. Avinoam Cohen is a senior lecturer
in the Department of Talmud at Bar Ilan.
Members of the Academic Advisory Committee
Rabbi Professor Joseph Tabory, Rabbi
Professor Z. A. Steinfeld, Professor Shamma Friedman,
Rabbi Professor David Henschke, Rabbi Professor Daniel
Sperber, all senior lecturers in the Department of Talmud
at Bar Ilan.
Director and Chief Researcher of the
Program
Rabbi Dr. Pinchas Hayman, lecturer
in the Department of Talmud and the School of Education,
Bar Ilan University.
Rabbi Dr. Hayman was born in Los Angeles, California,
USA in 1952, and studied at Yeshivat Hakotel from 1973-1975,
completing his Rabbinical Ordination at the Yitzchak
Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University
in New York in 1978.
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His Bachelor of
Arts degree was completed with honors (Phi Beta Kappa,
Magna cum Laude) at the University of California, Los
Angeles, in 1973. Along with his studies for Semicha,
he completed Master's and Doctoral Degrees at the Bernard
Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University, with a
specialty in Talmudic Literature. After seven years
in the congregational Rabbinate in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada, where he build an Orthodox congregation and
the Akiva Academy Orthodox day school, he came on aliyah
to Israel and joined the Department of Talmud. From
1989 to 1994 he served as Dean of Students of the University,
and as Rabbi of Congregation Shivtei Yisrael in Raanana,
and afterwards, as Director of the Joseph Lookstein
Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, of the
University's School of Education. In 1996 he was appointed
head of the Oral Tradition track in the the Teachers'
Training Unit of the School of Education, and is responsible
for academic programs in this area. He recently established
the "Program for the Teaching of Mishnah and Talmud"
which deals with the development and dissemination of
programs for the study of Oral Tradition in primary
and secondary schools. In addition to his academic pursuits,
Rabbi Dr. Hayman is involved with a wide variety of
public service projects, including training of Rabbis
and teachers for Israel and the diaspora, and for the
strengthening of Jewish Identity in the general Israeli
population.
Coordinator of the "Sugyot Project"
Rabbi David Elyashiv
Staff Members of the "Sugyot Project"
Rabbi Malachi Kofman, Rabbi Zvi Yanir, Mr. Ronen Cohen, Rabbi David
Lebowitz
Coordinator of the "Pirkei Talmud
Project"
Mr. Asaf Malach
Office Manager
Ms. Sharon Kesselman
Coordinator of the "Torat HaTannaim
Project"
Ms. Lital Kaduri
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