Sanctification

by Benjamin Blech (Editor), David Birnbaum (Editor)

Overview

Benjamin Blech is a tenth-generation rabbi. He has been a Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966, and was the Rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside for 37 years.

Rabbi Blech received a B.A. from Yeshiva University, an M.A. in psychology from Columbia University, and rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.

He is the author of 15 highly acclaimed books, the last one of which – The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican – has now been translated into sixteen languages.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157811709
Publisher:	New Paradigm Matrix
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	Mesorah Matrix Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	636
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Benjamin Blech is a tenth-generation rabbi. He has been a Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966, and was the Rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside for 37 years.

Rabbi Blech received a B.A. from Yeshiva University, an M.A. in psychology from Columbia University, and rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.

He is the author of 15 highly acclaimed books, the last one of which – The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican – has now been translated into sixteen languages.

His book Understanding Judaism: The Basics of Deed and Creed was chosen by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations as “the single best book on Judaism in our generation”. He has also published hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular publications; he is a noted feature columnist on Aish.com.

David Birnbaum is known globally as “the architect of Potentialism Theory” – a unified philosophy/cosmology/metaphysics. The paradigm-challenging theory is delineated in Birnbaum’s 3-volume Summa Metaphysica series (1988, 2005, 2014).

A riposte to Summa Theologica of (St.) Thomas Aquinas, the Birnbaum treatise (see PotentialismTheory.com) challenges both the mainstream Western philosophy of Aristotelianism and the well-propped-up British/atheistic cosmology of Randomness (see ParadigmChallenge.com). The focus of over 150 reviews and articles (see SummaCoverage.com), a course text at over 15 institutions of higher learning globally (see SummaCourseText.com), Summa Metaphysica was the focus of an international academic conference on Science & Religion April 16-19, 2012 (see BardConference.com).

David Birnbaum is, as well, the Editor-in-Chief of the in-progress Mesorah Matrix series on Jewish thought and spirituality: 10-volume, 10-theme, 150+ global Jewish thought leader essayists (see Mesorah1000.com).

In the history realm, David Birnbaum is the author of the 2-volume The Crucifixion – of the Jews, and of the 7-volume Jews, Church & Civilization. His Crucifixion series, in particular, traces a direct trajectory from the Canon Gospels in the First Century to Auschwitz in the Twentieth.

Birnbaum is a graduate of Yeshiva University High School (Manhattan), CCNY (City College of New York – Engineering) and Harvard. His commentary blog is www.ManhattanObserver.com.