The Book and the Sword: The amazing life of Professor David Weiss Halivni

Professor Weiss Halivni - who passed away earlier this year - was recognised as a Talmudic prodigy by the age of five and received semicha at 15. Yet, by 16 he had been sent to Auschwitz and ended the war as the sole survivor of his family, an experience that influenced every aspect of his work.

This session explores Weiss Halivni's life journey from Chassidic Romania, via New York, and finally to Israel in later life and how he diverged from mainstream orthodoxy; in his understanding of the development of the Talmud and the controversy over women's ordination