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	David Weiss Halivni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rabbi David Weiss Halivni is a scholar of Talmud and a Holocaust survivor, originally of Sighet, Hungary.
		Professor Halivni's name was formerly "David Weiss"; however, after World War II, he wanted to change his name, because "Weiss" had been the last name of a certain Nazi guard in a concentration camp where he had been imprisoned.
		Halivni left the Seminary in the 1980s after the controversy surrounding the training and ordination of women as rabbis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Weiss_Halivni (814 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Book and the Sword by David Weiss Halivni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		...Halivni, by contrast, Wiesel's townsman and age-mate, is interested less in the destruction of personal identity than in its persistence...
		...Halivni passes rather quickly over his time in Auschwitz and in the slave-labor camp to which he was later transferred...
		...Halivni's homage to this venerable figure at once repays a debt of gratitude and identifies, in his grandfather's rejection of the then-dominant style of Talmud study in favor of greater emphasis on the plain meaning of the text, a kind of precedent for the controversial innovations he himself would later introduce in his academic work...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V103I3P67-1.htm (1368 words)

	Judaism: Introduction to David Weiss Halivni's "Prayer in the Shoah"
		As Professor Halivni explains in the beginning of his essay, Yad Vashem had asked him to write the piece to introduce their publication of the High Holiday Machzor used in the Wolfsberg concentration camp (and that had been transcribed for that purpose by the Satmar Cantor Naphtali Stern, z'l).
		As Halivni recalls, "Rabbi Yosef spoke of the connection between sin and suffering and declared that the Holocaust was the result of sin and that the many religious people who were killed in the Holocaust had been sinners in a previous life (gilgul).
		Lucius Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at Columbia University and former head of the Talmud Department of the Jewish Theological Seminary, David Weiss Halivni is recognized as one of the post-war generation's greatest Talmudic scholars.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0411/is_3_50/ai_79786927 (1383 words)

	A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction; David Weiss Halivni's Odyssey from Holocaust to Academia Is Told
		David Weiss Halivni remembers the ghetto this way: "Whoever participated in that life, even for a short time, became a wounded relic of human cruelty, a creature of a blemished universe.
		Halivni is acutely troubled by how little we have learned from the horror of the Holocaust: "With all of the books that have been written about that period and about the war, we are still consumed by the sword," he said.
		Halivni continues work on his next book, the seventh in a 10-volume study of the sources and traditions of the Talmud, which has gained him world renown as a scholar of a tradition he is determined to keep alive.
	ccnmtl.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol22/vol22_iss10/record2210.20.html (1004 words)

	Amazon.com: Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses: Books: David Weiss Halivni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		If there is some uncertainty about Halivni's views concerning the superficial similarity of the Chumash with the original written Torah, it is because Halivni's focus is on the evidence for and theological implications of the notion that the present written Torah is the product of a restorative project by Ezra and his entourage.
		Halivni argues that the very fact that the Chumash contains uncertain passages, self-contradictions, and laws at variance with the Oral Torah, means that the compilers were working with source documents that were already considered so sacred that the compilers felt they could not make any corrections to the text being compiled.
		Halivni aims to show that traditional Judaism can survive the onslaught of critical scholarship because the probablility that the written Torah is a composite document compiled from strands and traditions doesn't mean that it isn't a trustworthy "restoration" of the Torah given to Moses.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813333474?v=glance (890 words)

	j. - Orthodox women moving toward religious leadership
		Halivni broke from the Jewish Theological Seminary and founded the Union for Traditional Judaism after the Conservative movement voted to recognize women rabbis.
		Weiss, author of "Women at Prayer," would not embrace the notion of women taking the title "rabbi," pointing out that none of the 10 women already enrolled in Torat Miriam's first semester this fall want to be rabbis.
		Weiss said there is no halachic prohibition against women performing many of the pulpit rabbi's duties, such as pastoral counseling, teaching Torah and being a spiritual leader.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/6323/edition_id/118/format/html/displaystory.html (1039 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara, by David Weiss Halivni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		...While Halivni is generally persuasive in depicting the Jewish legal tradition as actively seeking "man's approbation," he does appear to overstate his argument at points...
		...Halivni clearly delights in reporting the major "discovery" of his research: "Jewish apperception since the time of the Bible favored justificatory law...
		...Halivni (who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929, was deported to Auschwitz in 1944, and came to the United States in 1947) is extremely well suited by background and training to deal with his chosen theme...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V85I5P67-1.htm (1279 words)

	Journal of Scriptural Reasoning Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Halivni writes of his childhood, spent as a child prodigy in Talmud study in a Hungarian town of Sighet; of his teenage years, spent in slave labor camps, in Ebensee and Auschwitz; and of his adult years as a scholar of Talmud.
		In Halivni's study of Talmud during the years of Shoah—and in his oral teaching in the labor camps—I understand the Torah itself to have been present, literally, as a witness to the Shoah.
		But Halivni's text subverts the plain sense of both the Biblical and rabbinic texts in the same manner as most rabbinic midrash subverts the plain sense of the scriptural text it is commenting on.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /journals/jsrforum/writings/OchReco.html (10777 words)

	David Weiss Halivni - TheBestLinks.com - David Weiss HaLivni, Columbia University, Conservative Judaism, Hungary, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		Halivni broke off from the seminary in the 1970s after the controversy surrounding the training and ordination of female rabbis.
	www.thebestlinks.com /David_Weiss_HaLivni.html (521 words)

	Perseus Books Home
		David Weiss Halivni explores these questions, not by disputing the evidence itself or by defending the absolute integrity of the Pentateuchal words at all costs, but rather by accepting the inconsistencies of the text as such and asking how this text might yet be a divine legacy.
		Halivni demonstrates that the earliest stewards of the Torah, including some of those represented in the Bible itself, were aware of discrepancies within the tradition.
		Halivni provides an original defense of critical Biblical scholarship for traditional Jews and a new interpretation of the notion of the perfection of oral law.
	www.perseusbooksgroup.com /perseus/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0813333474 (576 words)

	David Weiss Halivni: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rabbi Halivni also serves as Littauer Professor of Talmud and Classical Rabbinics in the Department of Religion at Columbia University (Columbia University: A university in New York City).
		Stammaim, creating a new term for Rabbis that he places after the period of the Tannaim (Tannaim: the mishnah (hebrew, "repetition") is a major source of...
		Halivni is currently the Rabbi and spiritual leader of Kehilat Orach Eliezer (KOE,), a synagogue on Manhattan's Upper West Side (Upper West Side: the upper west side is a neighborhood of the borough of manhattan in new york city...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/david_weiss_halivni (730 words)

	Modern Orthodox Woman: Rabbi Weiss Halivni and Women's Talmud Scholarship
		She discusses the impact that Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, her teacher and mentor, has had on her and her work.
		Rabbi Halivni, one of the great Talmud scholars of our generation, taught for many years in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and is now moving to Israel.
		Halivni "missed" a European yeshiva education of old (although his style of learning with his grandfather and other rabbis was another European model of learning Torah of great vintage).
	www.mowoman.com /2005/07/thanks_to_steve.html (888 words)

	faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		David Weiss Halivni is a specialist in Talmud and Rabbinics.
		He spent thirty years as a member of the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary prior to his appointment at Columbia University.
		In addition to continuing his multivolume work, "Sources and Traditions: A Source Critical Commentary to the Talmud", the seventh volume of which will appear next year, Halivni has published his memoirs, "The Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction".
	www.columbia.edu /cu/religion/faculty-data/david-halivni/faculty.html (143 words)

	The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Once when studying with Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, my class came across a misquotation by a great Talmudic commentator.
		We were perplexed until Rabbi Halivni asked each of us how many sets of the Talmud we owned.
		David Wolpe - Rabbi David Wolpe is spiritual leader of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.
	www.thejewishweek.com /top/editletcontent.php3?artid=4566&print=yes (257 words)

	Professor Lieberman Hesped (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Excerpted From an Address by David Weiss-Halivni delivered at JTS on the occasion of Professor Lieberman’s First Yarzheit
		Professor Lieberman ז"ל died on an airplan that was to have taken him to Israel for Passover, where he would have stayed until after the High Holidays.
		And that is how it came to pass that Moreinu ve-Rabeinu Rabbi Shaul died on an airplane on his way to Israel to celebrate Passover, the holiday of the Paschal lamb.
	www.thebronsteins.com /halivni_grash.html (489 words)

	The Jewish Week: `We Have Nothing To Fall Back On But God': David Weiss Halivni's mind@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		David Weiss Halivni has re-created a small piece of his early shtetl life in his office at Columbia University, where he is a professor of religion.
		In a quiet, sixth-floor space, comfortable among hundreds of Judaica books and rare manuscripts, he studies texts and prepares his scholarly research under a framed photograph of his family, taken when he was a youngster in Sighet, in the Carpathian Mountains.
		David's life was simple then, before the Nazis came and...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:22214496&refid=ink_tptd_np (227 words)

	Back Row Of The 'Beis: Life Doesnt Stop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In short, Halivni (and Shamma Friedman) believes that the "stamma de-gemara" (the anoynmous, Aramaic sections of Talmudic dialog) consistently represents a later, redactional layer than the attributed, mostly hebrew, Amoraic statements that are cited.
		Meir Simcha Feldblum who was in turn a student of Avraham Weiss (not to be confused with HIR), who believed that each sugya developed organically on its own, and we cannot make sweeping generalizations about the editorial process.
		Based on my own experiences with reading various sugyot in meqorot umesorot, halivni generally goes to great lengths (and true achroinish creativity) to find other ways to read a sugya before admitting that an amora is responding to something that he assumes is stammaitic.
	www.thebronsteins.com /archives/000086.html (551 words)

	wiki/Talmud Definition / wiki/Talmud Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Some scholars hold that many or most the statements and events described in the Talmud usually occurred more or less as described, and that they can be used as serious sources of historical study.
		Rabbi David Weiss HalivniRabbi David Weiss Halivni is scholar of Talmud and a Holocaust survivor originally of Sighet, Hungary.
		David C. Kraemer, On the Reliability of Attributions in the Babylonian Talmud, Hebrew Union College Annual 60 (1989), pp.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Talmud (8942 words)

	Alibris: David Weiss Halivni
		The words of the Talmud were the universe for David Weiss Halivni during his childhood in Sighet, in the Carpathian Mountains.
		Before he was five he began his studies; by the time he was ten he had outgrown the town's teachers and started to learn at home with his scholarly, impoverished grandfather.
		Renowned Judaic scholar David Weiss Halivni explores internal inconsistencies in the Pentateuch and examines the question of how the Rabbinic tradition has been able to accommodate evidence of human intervention in a text that derives its authority from divine revelation.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/David_Weiss_Halivni (367 words)

	Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis
		In his examination of the history of Jewish exegesis of the Bible and Talmud, Halivni investigates the tension that has often existed between the plain sense of the divine text (peshat) and its creative, rabbinic interpretation (derash).
		He also explores the differences between the religious right, which denies that Judaism has a history, and the religious left, which claims that history is all that Judaism has.
		The Popes against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, by David I. Kertzer
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0195115716 (298 words)

	Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis - David Weiss Halivni, David Weiss Halivi
		Applying his vast knowledge of Rabbinic materials to the long history of Jewish exegesis of both Bible and Talmud, Halivni investigates the tension that has often existed between the plain sense of the divine text (peshat) and its creative, Rabbinic interpretations (derash).
		Halivni addresses the theological implications of the deviation of derash from peshat and explores the differences between the ideological extreme of the religious right, which denies that Judaism has a history, and the religious left, which claims that history is all that Judaism has.
		A comprehensive and critical narration of the history and repercussions of Rabbinic exegesis, this analysis will interest students of legal texts, hermeneutics, and scriptural traditions, as well as anyone involved in Jewish studies.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0195115716/Peshat_and_Derash:_Plain_and_Applied_Meaning_in_Rabbinic_Exegesis.htm (247 words)

	David Weiss Halivni ; Book & the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction, David Wen - Assembly Language ...
		David Weiss Halivni ; Book & the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction, David Wen - Assembly Language Byte By Byte,
		David Weiss Halivni David Weiss Halivini - Midrash, Mishnah and Gemara: The Jewish Predilection for Justified Law
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	www.searchengineforbooks.com /58164_david-weiss-halivni.html (162 words)

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		In brief, I suggest that their debate can be resolved by taking into account the theories of David Weiss Halivni and Shamma Friedman concerning the post-amoraic or “stammaitic” provenance of the anonymous stratum of the Bavli, as well as some recent work on the post-amoraic origins of many Bavli narratives.
		Goodblatt and Gafni did their research and conducted their debate before David Weiss Halivni and Shamma Friedman published their theories that the setam hatalmud, the unattributed stratum of the Talmud, derives from post-amoraic times.
		However, the exegesis is accompanied by an Aramaic gloss that mentions King David teaching the rabbis, which creates the impression of an academic context, and which Gafni adduces as the key proof.
	www.biu.ac.il /JS/JSIJ/1-2002/Rubenstein.doc (4121 words)

	Canonist » 2005 » July
		David Kelsey (who?) of Heeb Magazine (what?), where he’s the “ad manager” (????), sees fit to take on the editorial brains at the Forward with a post on Jewschool that has the fun traits of being wrong, poorly argued, and profoundly unaware.
		Canonist is a religion blog authored by Steven I. Weiss.
		Weiss is a case study in how the internet can foster nonfiction writing that's deeper, smarter, and more entertaining than that manufactured through the chain of command at the dailies."
	www.canonist.com /?m=200507 (1783 words)

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