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Rabbi Dr. Itamar Rosensweig

Itamar
Rosensweig

Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Professor of Talmud and Philosophy

646-592-4028

Glueck Center for Jewish Study
515 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033

 

Rabbinic Ordination, Yadin Yadin, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Rabbinic Ordination, Yoreh Yoreh, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
PhD in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
MA in Philosophy, Columbia University
PhD in Medieval Jewish History, Bernard Revel Graduate School of ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ
BA in Physics and Philosophy, ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ

Email

meir.rosensweig@yu.edu


Rabbi Dr. Itamar Rosensweig is the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Professor of Talmud and Philosophy at ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ, where he teaches an advanced Talmud shiur in the Mazer ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ Program and philosophy in ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ College. He also serves as dayan (rabbinic judge) and chaver beit din at the Beth Din of America and is the rav of the Shtiebel of Lower Merion. He served as the chair of Jewish studies at the Sy Syms School of Business from 2021 through 2024. He received his semikha, Yoreh Yoreh and Yadin Yadin, from RIETS, where he was a fellow of the Wexner Kollel Elyon and editor-in-chief of the Beit Yitzchak Journal of Talmudic and Halakhic Studies.

He received his BA, with honors, in physics and philosophy from ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ and an MA and PhD in medieval Jewish history from YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School. He also holds an MA in Philosophy from Columbia University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rabbi Rosensweig studied Talmud with Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein at ¾ÅɫÊÓƵt Har Etzion and the history of halakha with Prof. Haym Soloveitchik at ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ. He studied for many years with his father, Rabbi Michael Rosensweig, and for a decade attended his shiur at ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ. Previously, he taught an advanced Talmud shiur at Columbia University’s Kraft Center and served as the resident scholar at Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, New Jersey.

The Philosophical Foundations of Marriage and its Dissolution: A Jewish Law Perspective, Research Handbook of Family Law and Religion (Edward Elgar 2027)

Moral Equality and Tie Breakers, Touro Law Review (forthcoming)

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, The Symposium (November 2026)

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, Tradition (Spring 2026)

, Jewishprudence (February 2026)

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, בית יצחק (תשפ"ה)

, Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law (2025)

, בית יצחק (תשפ"ה)

, Touro Law Review (2025)

Law's Limits: Penumbras, Emanations, and Supererogation, ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ Torah Series (2025)

, בית יצחק (תשפ"ד)

, Jewishprudence (May 2024)

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, Doresh Tzion (2024)

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, ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ Torah Series (2023) 

Minhag Ha-Sochrim: Jewish Law's Incorporation of Mercantile Custom and Marketplace Norms, Journal of the Beth Din of America (2023)

Jewishprudence (July 2023)

, Journal of the Beth Din of America (2023)

Touro Law Review (2022)

, קול צבי (תשפ"ב)

The Biblical Verse as a Source of Halakhah in Ramban's Normative Jurisprudence, Megadim Journal of Biblical Studies (2022) 

, Jewishprudence (January 2022)

, ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ Torah Series (2022)

, ¾ÅɫÊÓƵ (2022)

, בית יצחק (תשפ"א)

, Jewishprudence (October 2021)

, Jewishprudence (October 2020)

, Jewishprudence (April 2020)

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, בית יצחק (תשע"ז)

, בית יצחק (תשע"ו)

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646-592-4028

Glueck Center for Jewish Study
515 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033

 

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