Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest
Jerusalem · 1976
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David Hartman
David Hartman
1931 CE–2013 CE · Modern · Brooklyn (NY)
Rabbi David Hartman (1931–2013) was a Modern Orthodox philosopher and the founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Born in Brooklyn and ordained by R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik at Yeshiva University, he served as senior rabbi in Montreal before moving to Israel in 1971 and joining the philosophy faculty of the Hebrew University.
In 1976 he founded the Shalom Hartman Institute, which became Israel's premier center for pluralistic Jewish thought, training rabbis and educators across denominations. Hartman developed a covenantal theology drawing on Rambam and Soloveitchik but emphasizing Jewish religious diversity and the legitimate presence of multiple ways of being Jewish in the modern state. His best-known works are *A Living Covenant* (1985) and *A Heart of Many Rooms* (1999).
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Stop 1 of 31931–1960Born
Brooklyn (NY)ברוקליןNew York, USA
What they did here
Born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn; studied at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin and was ordained at Yeshiva University under R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, then served as a rabbi in the Bronx.
About Brooklyn (NY)
Modern center of multiple Hasidic dynasties (Lubavitch in Crown Heights, Satmar in Williamsburg, Bobov in Borough Park) plus Modern Orthodox communities.
In Brooklyn (NY) at the same time
Yonasan Steif, Reuven Grozovsky, Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, Yoel Teitelbaum, Avraham Kalmanowitz, Yaakov Kamenetsky
Across the traditions, in Brooklyn (NY) at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with David Hartman’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Yonasan Steif, Yechezkel Abramsky, Isser Yehuda Unterman, Reuven Grozovsky, Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, Yoel Teitelbaum, Avraham Kalmanowitz, Shlomo Yosef Zevin, Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Yaakov Kamenetsky, Aharon Kotler, Menachem Mendel Kasher, Yisrael Alter, Gershom Scholem, Saul Lieberman, Meir Chadash, Yitzhak Kaduri, Salman Mutzafi
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with David Hartman’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Christian world
Hindu world
Works(4)
A Living Covenant
Jerusalem · 1985
A Heart of Many Roomsלב של חדרים רבים
Jerusalem · 1999
1999 reading of rabbinic literature as warrant for theological pluralism across the contemporary Jewish landscape.
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A Living Covenantברית חיה
Jerusalem · 1985
1985 covenantal-pluralist theology of Modern Orthodoxy emphasizing Israel, mitzvot, and the diversity of legitimate Jewish religious expression.
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