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R. Nachum Rabinovitch

Name	Rabbi Dr. Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch הרב נחום אליעזר רבינוביץ
Dates	1928 – 2020
Location	Maaleh Adumim, London, Toronto, South Carolina
Works	Yad Peshutah, Siach Nachum, Mesillot bi-Levavam
Exegetical Characteristics
Influenced by	Maimonides, Rabbi Pinchas Hirschsprung, Yosef Eliyahu Henkin
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Edition

Edition in ALHATORAH Mishneh Torah

Background

Life

• Name – Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch
  • Hebrew name – הרב נחום אליעזר רבינוביץ
• Dates – 1928 – 2020
• Location – Maaleh Adumim, London, Toronto, South Carolina
• Education – Yeshivas Merkaz HaTorah (Montreal), Yeshivas Ner Israel (Baltimore), University of Toronto (Ph.D.)
• Occupation – Rosh Yeshiva, communal rabbi
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• Teachers – Rabbi Pinchas Hirschsprung, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman
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• Students – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
• Time period – Modern Era 
• World outlook – Religious Zionism, Classical Liberalism¹ 

Works

• Biblical commentaries – Ner le-Netivati: Derashot on the Weekly Parasha (Maale Adumim: 2022) (posthumous) 
• Rabbinics – 
  • Talmudic novellae – Hadar Itamar (Jerusalem: 1972)
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  • Commentaries – Mishneh Torah with Commentary Yad Peshutah (Maaleh Adumim: 1984-2019)
  • Responsa – Melumadei Milchama (Maaleh Adumim: 1993), Siach Nachum (Maaleh Adumim: 2008)
• Jewish thought – Mesillot bi-Levavam (Maaleh Adumim: 2015)
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Commentary on Mishneh Torah

Rav Rabinovitch's work Yad Peshutah is a multivolume commentary on Rambam's Mishneh Torah. 21 volumes were published during Rav Rabinovitch's lifetime covering eight of the 14 books of the Mishneh Torah.

 

Characteristics

• Text of the Mishneh Torah – Yad Peshutah makes use of manuscripts of the Mishneh Torah in order to determine the most accurate version of the text (as opposed to the version of the text used in standard print editions of the Mishneh Torah). In addition to presenting a text which aims to be as close as possible to the original version as written by Rambam himself, at times it can be shown that apparent difficulties in the text are in fact the result of inaccuracies in the standard editions.  
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¹ Schwartz, Rami (2021). "The Political Theology of Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch". The Torah u-Madda Journal. 18: 1–32.