Rabbi Willig, a rosh yeshiva (professor of Talmud) at the university’s Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies since 1973, and s’gan rosh kollel L’Horaah Yadin Yadin (assistant head of the post-graduate institute) since 1987, is one of the world’s leading authorities on issues pertaining to the agunah, a Jewish woman who cannot obtain a religious divorce because of a recalcitrant husband. Rabbi Willig received a bachelor’s degree in math in 1968 and a master’s degree in Jewish history in 1971. That year he also received semikhah (rabbinic ordination) from RIETS. Rabbi Willig is spiritual leader of the Young Israel of Riverdale.
Speaker's Resources
Renewing Our Spirit Volume II Self, Family, Nation 2003
Dr. David Shatz, Dr. Rivkah Blau, Dr. Tamra Wright, Dr. William Helmreich, Leah Malamet, Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Rabbi Mordechai Willig, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, Yoel Ben-Avraham
Program
Aug 13, 2017