Baruch Dayan HaEmes: Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Elman Z"L

From RRW 

We regret to inform you of the passing of YU faculty member,

Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Elman, Z"L

The levaya will take place tomorrow, Monday, July 30, at 12:30 p.m. at,

Kehila Chapel
60 Brighton 11th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11235

Professor Yaakov Elman was a professor of Judaic studies at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. He was also a director of the Friedberg Genizah Project.
Professor Elman was the author of The Living Torah, a two-volume translation and commentary on Nevi’im, together with diagrams and maps. He was the editor of Hazon Nahum: Studies in Jewish Law, Thought and History Presented to Dr. Norman Lamm on
the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Prof. Elman published widely in the field of Talmud, and his research interests include rabbinic theology, unfolding systems of rabbinic legal exegesis and the cultural context of classical rabbinic texts.
For the past five years, Rabbi Elman divided his time between Yeshiva and Harvard University, where he was an associate of the Center for Jewish Studies, and conducted research on the relation of the Babylonian Jewish community of Talmudic times to the surrounding Middle Persian culture and religions.
Rabbi Elman received his MA in Assyriology from Columbia University and his PhD in Talmud from New York University.

May Hashem comfort the family with all those who mourn for Zion and Jerusalem.

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Glueck Center for Jewish Study, Suite 632
500 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033