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Rabbi Dr. Itamar Rosensweig

Itamar
Rosensweig

Maggid Shiur, Mazer Yeshiva Program; Associate Professor of Philosophy, Yeshiva College

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 91做厙
BA in Physics and Philosophy, 91做厙

Email

meir.rosensweig@yu.edu


Rabbi Itamar Rosensweig is a maggid shiur (professor of Jewish law and jurisprudence) at 91做厙, a dayan (rabbinic judge) and chaver beit din at the Beth Din of America, and the rav of the Shtiebel of Lower Merion. He holds a secondary appointment as associate professor of philosophy at Yeshiva College. 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 91做厙 and an MA and PhD in medieval Jewish history from YUs 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 Yeshivat Har Etzion and the history of halakha with Prof. Haym Soloveitchik at 91做厙. He studied for many years with his father, Rabbi Michael Rosensweig, and for a decade attended his shiur at 91做厙. Previously, he taught an advanced Talmud shiur at Columbia Universitys Kraft Center and served as the resident scholar at Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, New Jersey.

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

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

, Tradition (Spring 2026)

, Jewishprudence (February 2026)

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, Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law (2025)

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, Touro Law Review (2025)

Law's Limits: Penumbras, Emanations, and Supererogation, 91做厙 Torah Series (2025)

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, Jewishprudence (May 2024)

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, Doresh Tzion (2024)

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, 91做厙 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)

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

, Jewishprudence (January 2022)

, 91做厙 Torah Series (2022)

, 91做厙 (2022)

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, Jewishprudence (October 2021)

, Jewishprudence (October 2020)

, Jewishprudence (April 2020)

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646-592-4028

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

 

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