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Yitzchak Ginsburgh (born 14 November 1944) is an American-born Israeli rabbi. He is currently the president of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah in the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank, and the spiritual leader of the kabbalistic Gal Einai movement. Many of his students and followers were formerly associated with the ideology of religious Zionism.〔 He has published numerous books. Ginsburgh is affiliated with the Chabad movement, though his yeshiva is not. == Biography == Ginsburgh was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1944.〔 His father held a PhD in education and consulted for various Jewish organizations. While living in Philadelphia, he met a descendant of the Nadvorna Chassidic dynasty and at the age of 14 became a baal teshuva. He attended the University of Chicago, majoring in mathematics and philosophy. He then completed a Masters in Mathematics at the Belfer Graduate School of Yeshiva University. At the age of 22, he decided to devote himself entirely to Torah study.〔Biography appearing in his books.〕 In 1965 he went to Israel and studied at the Yeshivah of Kamenitz in Jerusalem. He spent 1966 through 1967 at the Slonim shul in Tiberias. After the Six Day War, Ginsburgh went to Jerusalem and was one of the first to move into the old Jewish quarter. He started to study the Chabad school of ''Chassidus'' in depth. That year he visited the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and remained in Crown Heights, Brooklyn for several months. When he returned to Israel he married and began to teach Talmud, Shulchan Aruch, and Chassidut to a group of students in Jerusalem. In 1983 he was asked by Jerusalem rabbi and philanthropist Yosef Eliyahu Deutch to serve as head of the Shuva Yisra'el Yeshivah on Yo'el Street. Rabbi Ginsburgh gave frequent classes on a wide variety of subjects, from the exoteric to the esoteric parts of the Torah. Many were taped and form a large part of the 15,000 lecture archive of his classes. Until the retreat of the IDF from the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2001), Ginsburgh served as the Rosh Yeshivah of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah (then located at Joseph's Tomb) and as the head of a Kollel in the ancient Shalom Al Yisrael Synagogue in Jericho. He has resumed his teaching at the Od Yosef Chai Yeshivah since its relocation to Yitzhar. Ginsburgh lives with his family in Kfar Chabad, Israel and delivers classes throughout Israel, the United States and France. He devotes most of his time and resources to writing and publishing original works on Kabbalah and Chassidut that discuss a range of topics, from commentaries on the Chumash to the relationship between Torah and science. These books are published by Gal Einai, his organization, whose name is taken from Psalms 119:18. He has published over 70 volumes of original work in Hebrew and another 13 in English. His students include: * Rabbi Shalom Arush, Head of the Chut shel Chesed Yeshivah and Institute; * Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira of Yitzhar. * Sarah Yehudit Schneider, founding director of A Still Small Voice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yitzchak Ginsburgh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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