by Rabbi Ronald Price, Rabbi David Weiss Halivni Z"L and Recommended by UTJ
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At https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-divrei-halev-words-from-the-heart-thoughts-of-rabbi-professor-david-weiss/ Ben Rothke reviews Divrei Halev: Thoughts of Rabbi Professor David Weiss Halivni on the Weekly Torah Portion By Rabbi Ronald Price (2025).
Rather than leaving his audience petrified and in tears, [Rav Halivni]’s approach was closer to that kol demama daka, the still, small voice, literally “the sound of a slender silence” (I Melachim 19:9–12).
Rav Halivni was a once-in-a-generation scholar, best known for his magnum opus Mekorot u’Mesorot, in which he analyzed Talmudic manuscripts in search of the original and authentic rendition of the text.
In Divrei Halev: Words From The Heart – Thoughts of Rabbi Professor David Weiss Halivni(Gefen Publishing) on the Weekly Torah Portion, his close student, Rabbi Ronald Price, shows that Rav Halivni was not just a master of the Talmud, but also of the Chumash.
Read more at https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-divrei-halev-words-from-the-heart-thoughts-of-rabbi-professor-david-weiss/.
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