Adin Steinsaltz

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (1937–2020) was a rabbi, educator, scholar, chasid, philosopher, social critic, and prolific author, translator, and commentator on many works. Born in Jerusalem to a secular Jewish family, he studied science at the Hebrew University alongside his Torah study. In addition to the many works he published, he also established several schools, a yeshiva, and a Jewish university in the former Soviet Union. His most famous work is the translation of the Talmud into modern Hebrew, known as the Steinsaltz edition.