Rabbi · Ph.D. · Dayan
Zev I. Farber
I find the story and look for the solution that isn't supposed to be there.
Most problems come with boundaries already drawn: what can be questioned, which answers count, which possibilities are too uncomfortable or taboo to consider. I look for the story that drew those boundaries—and reframe it so other answers become possible.
Education
Degrees and ordination
Ph.D., Emory University, Jewish Religious Cultures and Hebrew Bible.
M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jewish History (biblical period).
B.A., Touro College, Psychology.
Rabbinic ordination (yoreh yoreh), Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
Advanced ordination (yadin yadin), Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
Press
Coverage and discussion
- Tablet: Reconciling Modern Biblical Scholarship With Traditional Orthodox Belief
- Haaretz: These Orthodox Jews are Challenging Commonly Held Beliefs About the Torah
- Jewish Chronicle: The Rabbi Behind the American Jacobs Affair
- Ynet: המהפכה השקטה
- Jewish Chronicle: Star Rabbi is Accused of Heresy
- Morethodoxy: The Challenge of Biblical Criticism: Dogma vs. Faith PDF
- Algemeiner: Petty Orthodoxy
- Jewish Chronicle: The Golden Calf that Orthodoxy Must Slay
- On Revelation, Heresy, and Mesorah from Louis Jacobs to TheTorah.com paper
- Is Modern Orthodoxy Moving Towards an Acceptance of Biblical Criticism? paper
- Changing Attitudes? A Trans Bride in Israel Just Got Married by an Orthodox Rabbi
Contact
Write to me
For speaking, consultation, press, Prisma, the Atlas, or the books.