Norman Lamm (December 19, 1927 – May 31, 2020) was an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, scholar, academic administrator, author, and Jewish community leader. He was the Chancellor of Yeshiva University until he announced his retirement on July 1, 2013.
Lamm served as the third President of Yeshiva University, the first to be born in the United States. He was a disciple of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (one of Orthodoxy's most influential modern scholars), who ordained him at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University's rabbinical school in 1951.
NormanLamm (December 19, 1927 – May 31, 2020) was an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, scholar, academic administrator, author, and Jewish community leader...
Belkin and Joseph Soloveitchik, and most recently, and formally, by NormanLamm. Although its roots go back to 1886, it was only in 1946 that the University...
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conversions at all according to them. In the 1980s Modern Orthodox Rabbi NormanLamm, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University, along with other American and Israeli...
with any literal tendency would be ascribing false corporeality to God. NormanLamm describes the alternative Hasidic-Mitnagdic interpretations of this....
was near the battle area and yet did not come [to intervene]." Rabbi NormanLamm, former chancellor of Yeshiva University, also wrote on this subject...
for Torah's sake in the works of Haim Volozhin and his contemporaries, NormanLamm, Yeshivah University Scholem, Gershom (1991). On the Mystical Shape of...
transformed." Torah Lishmah-Torah for Torah's Sake, NormanLamm, Ktav 1989; summarised in Faith and Doubt, NormanLamm, chapter "Monism for Moderns". Identifies...
tenured professor of Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University; Rabbi NormanLamm, chancellor of Yeshiva University; Rabbi Shmuley Boteach; Gary Rosenblatt...
Montefiore Health System. Bernard Revel 1915–40 Samuel Belkin, 1943–75 NormanLamm, 1976–2003 Richard M. Joel, 2003–17 Ari Berman, 2017–present The university's...
Such as the theological novel The Town Beyond The Wall by Elie Wiesel. NormanLamm gives a Biblical, Midrashic and Kabbalistic exegesis of it in Faith and...
establishment of hundreds of yeshiva day schools across the United States NormanLamm (1927–2020), scholar, academic administrator, author and Jewish community...
Chaim's predecessors such as the Vilna Gaon and Rav Yechezkel Landau. NormanLamm described its structure: The Nefesh ha-Hayyim consists of five parts...
Kellner, Maimonides' Confrontation With Mysticism, Littman Library, 2006 NormanLamm, The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary, Ktav Pub, 1999:...
Rick Moranis, Georgina Bloomberg, Noah Emmerich, Meyer Davis, and Rabbi NormanLamm, the former chancellor of Yeshiva University. It was one of several buildings...
believe in the existence of evil things in nature. According to Rabbi NormanLamm, Moses Maimonides "refuted the exaggerated ideas about the importance...
wishes and that He owes no accounting to anyone for His choices." Rabbi NormanLamm, a leader of Modern Orthodox Judaism, wrote: "The chosenness of Israel...
night: Minchah and Ma'ariv By Lawrence A. Hoffman, Marc Brettler, page 63 NormanLamm, The Shema: Spirituality and Law in Judaism, p.103 Yehuda Amital, Jewish...
was the first woman to hold the position. In 1977, shortly after Rabbi NormanLamm was appointed the president of YU, the administration worked to develop...
transcendental precondition of authentic protest. In one of his books, NormanLamm treats Wiesel's theological novel, The Town Beyond the Wall, to literary...
Society. The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary, Edited by NormanLamm, Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University. Wrapped in a...
and Mrs. Marcos Katz. Jerome Schottenstein was introduced by Rabbi Dr. NormanLamm to the publication committee shortly thereafter. He began by donating...
Ladin, Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women (2003-2021) NormanLamm, chancellor (also alumnus) Joe Lieberman, US Senator Bernard Madoff,...
Rabbinical Council of America. Tradition was founded in 1958 by Rabbi NormanLamm as the leading journal of intellectual Orthodox thought, and Saks has...
room. The Carl Lutz Society promotes his legacy. Statement by Rabbi Dr NormanLamm. Beacons in the Dark [1] Statement by Professor MP Irv Cotler. Beacons...
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