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Pinchas Allouche

Aug 12, 2025, 12:06 AM

Five Years On: An Open Letter to My Beloved Mentor, Rav Adin Steinsaltz ob”m

Dearest Rav Adin, I can’t believe five years have passed since your abrupt passing. Five years… in which we have lived through a world-altering pandemic, the unfathomable horrors and heroism of October 7th, an unimaginable surge in antisemitism, and unprecedented times...

Peter Himmelman

Jul 2, 2025, 3:06 AM

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: My Words of Adoration

The author & Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (z”l)

In 2016, my wife, my younger son and I had an opportunity to meet privately with a person that Time magazine described as a “once-in-a-millennium scholar.” His name was Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. I was first introduced to Rabbi Steinsaltz’s writing...

May 23, 2025, 6:16 AM

Quantum Mechanics in the Mikva and the Grapes.

The relationship between the Torah and quantum mechanics is a subject that has fascinated both scientists and Torah scholars. In this article, I aim to show how the rules and wisdom of the Torah actually reflect and even anticipate...

Pinchas Allouche

Aug 4, 2023, 5:57 PM

Three Years Later: Rabbi Steinsaltz on Ten of Life’s Biggest Topics

Today, marks the third annivesary since the passing of one of our generation's foremost rabbis and scholars, my beloved mentor, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, lovingly known to his students as “Rav Adin”, was recognized as a...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 22, 2023, 10:45 AM

Why ask the rabbi?

Not for the religious faint of heart I once told my rabbi: 'I don't want your ruling in an area where I consider myself an expert, but I would like your opinion to take into account.' He gave me his...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

May 24, 2023, 6:34 AM

Moses’ perfectionist mistake regarding Pentecost

Perfectionism is the mental ailment of overdoing it This lecture I build the European way, not the American way. The American way is to say the most important things you want to say and then prove it. No surprises en...

Michel M.J. Shore

Mar 15, 2023, 12:49 PM

Sonnet in Memory of Rabbi Adin Even Israel (Steinsaltz)

An enlightened soul, a resounding voice, Soft but penetrating with truth profound, Gave his multi-faceted mind by choice To transmit knowledge of the ages, text-bound. Thus, brought the generations past, present And the future with the treasure to know, Who they are, whence they came,...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Aug 15, 2022, 7:52 AM

Moses blames rebellious Jews for his sinful anger?

We will find four oblique references to the Ninth of Av Many commentators want us to believe that Moses blames rebellious Jews for his sinful anger. They failed to convince me for several reasons. 1. No one can make you angry....

Pinchas Allouche

Jul 23, 2021, 8:26 AM

One Year Later: 10 Life-Lessons From My Mentor, ‘Rav Adin’ ob”m

Across the globe, people from all walks of life will come together this coming Monday, the 17th of the Hebrew month of Menachem Av, which corresponds with July 26, to mark the one-year anniversary of the passing of my...

Pinchas Allouche

Jul 13, 2021, 8:30 AM

To My Beloved Mentor, Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz ob”m

Dearest Rav Adin, Our last face-to-face conversation, which took place exactly one year ago, was interrupted by the angel of death. You were at home, surrounded by hundreds of diverse books. I knew you had read each of them, and so...

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