e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Shimon Shkop

Program details

Dates

January 26, 2026 to March 16, 2026

Time

Mondays 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM Eastern

Next class

Monday January 26, 2026

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Rabbi Shimon Shkop

Dr. Marc Shapiro

This series will focus on the life and thought of the great rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Shimon Shkop. Rabbi Shimon Shkop, Rosh Yeshiva in Telz and later Grodno, was one of the most outstanding talmudic scholars of his day. But he also was an innovative conceptual thinker whose life reflected many of the changes confronting the European Jewish community in the years before World War II.

Dr. Shapiro's classes for the year 5786 are generously sponsored by:

Fran and Alan Broder
Shira and Yisroel Hochberg
Marilyn and Rabbi Dov Loketch 
Pessie and Asher Reimer 
Jacob and Joseph Sasson
Hyla and Yakov Yellin
Drs. Diane and David Zwillenberg
and the generous donors who requested anonymity 

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Meet the speaker

Dr. Marc Shapiro

Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. A graduate of Brandeis (BA) and Harvard (PhD), he is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews and is a popular scholar in residence at synagogues around the world. He has written Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. Other books of his include Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox,

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