Q&A: Leibowitz
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Leibowitz
Question
Hello and blessings,
Is it known to the Rabbi whether Yeshayahu Leibowitz was a Torah scholar?
[My father’s uncle, who is himself a learned man, claimed to me that he was a Torah scholar.]
Best regards,
A.Y.A.
Answer
I don’t know from firsthand knowledge, but my impression is that he was not a Torah scholar in the accepted sense. He had broad general knowledge, but in Jewish law, the commentators on the Talmud, and the methods of analysis—I have serious doubts.
Discussion on Answer
A strange question. I don’t know that even about people around me.
I meant: what is the Rabbi’s intuition—was he just someone who talked, or also a man of action?
Does the Rabbi know whether he was God-fearing?