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Yosef Bronstein
Yosef Bronstein received rabbinic ordination and a PhD in Talmudic Studies from Yeshiva University. He is the Rosh Bet Midrash of Machon Zimrat Ha’aretz, a community learning center in Efrat, Israel, and also teaches Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University’s Isaac Breuer College. He is the author of Engaging the Essence: The Torah Philosophy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of The Authority of the Divine Law: A Study in Tannaitic Midrash (Academic Studies Press, 2024) and the coauthor of Reshimot Shiurim al Masekhet Kiddushin (Rabbi Joseph b. Soloveitchik’s Talmud lectures on tractate Kiddushin).
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