Research Fields

•  Modern Jewish Philosophy
• Religious Zionism
• Philosophy of the Halakhah (Jewish Law)
•  Philosophy of Jewish Education

About

Prof. Avinoam Rosenak is a senior lecturer at the Department of Jewish Thought and in the School of Education, Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the former chair of the Jewish Thought department (2010-2013). His field of research is Modern Jewish Philosophy, Religious Zionism, Philosophy of the Halakhah (Jewish Law), and Philosophy of Jewish Education.

 

Selected Publications

Avinoam Rosenak, (2007), The Prophetic Halakhah: Rabbi A. I. H. Kook's Philosophy of Halakhah, Magnes Press, Jerusalem (Hebrew).

Avinoam Rosenak, (2009), Halakhah as an Agent of Change: Critical Studies in Philosophy of Halakhah, Magnes Press, Jerusalem (Hebrew).

Avinoam Rosenak (2013), Cracks: Rabbi Kook, his Disciples and their Critics, Resling publication, (Hebrew)

Avinoam Rosenak (2009), "Truth Tests, Educational Philosophy and Five Models of the Philosophy of Jewish Law", Hebrew Union College Annual, vol. lxxviii, pp. 149-182

Conflicting Identities: Interfaith Marriage - Philosophical's, Theological's and educational thought's Analisis, Jerusalem, Carmel publication, in print (Hebrew).

 

Teaching

"Reading in Rabbi Soloveitchik's "Halachic Man

Models in the Philosophy of Halakhah

Streams in the Modern Jewish World: From Spinoza to Reform Judaism Educational Philosophical Challenges and Implications

On the Concept of "Encounter" in Jewis Thought in the Middle Ages and in the Modern Age

Religious Zionism as a Spiritual and Intellectual Challenge: in light of Rabbis Amiel, Soloveitchik, Kook and Hartman,

On Modern Orthodoxy: Reading in the Writings of R. Soloveitchik, R. Kook & R. Hartman and their Students

Philosophy of Halacha and Philosophy of Education

Particularism and Universalism in Jewish Thought and in the Research of Jewish Thought

Philosophical's, Halakhic's and Educational's Dimantion of the Conservative Judaism and Modern Orthodox

Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought