Rabbi Rosensweig occupies the
Nathan and Perel Schupf Chair in Talmud at RIETS. He is a 1980 graduate
of Yeshiva College, and earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the Bernard
Revel Graduate School. After receiving semicha from RIETS, Rabbi
Rosensweig was among the first group to complete the intensive
post-graduate studies in RIETS' Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Kollel
Elyon. Rabbi Rosensweig was appointed a Rosh Yeshiva, a member of the
RIETS faculty, in 1985. He has written extensively, contributing to
numerous journals of Torah learning.
Rabbi Rosensweig received his semikha (rabbinic ordination) from Yeshiva
University’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
(RIETS) and was a distinguished fellow of its post-semikha institute,
the Gruss Kollel Elyon. He received his undergraduate degree from
Yeshiva College and earned his Ph.D. in medieval Jewish history from the
University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School while studying under
Professor Haym Soloveitchik. He was also a student of Rav Aharon
Lichtenstein, renowned Talmudic scholar and rosh yeshiva at Yeshivat Har
Etzion and director of RIETS’ Joseph and Caroline Gruss Institute in
Jerusalem.
In 1985, Rabbi Rosensweig was appointed rosh yeshiva in the Yeshiva
Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies, one of four undergraduate
Jewish studies divisions for men at Yeshiva University. At the time, he
was RIETS’ youngest rosh yeshiva. In 1997, Rabbi Rosensweig was
appointed rosh kollel (Dean) of the prestigious Israel Henry Beren
Institute for Higher Talmudic Studies (Ha-Machon ha-Gavohah le’Talmud)
at RIETS. [from YUTorah.org]
