Guest Lecturer
Rav Meir Sendor has been the Rabbi of the Young Israel of Sharon, MA for over two decades. A student of the late Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Ztz”l, he received his ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. He received his Doctorate in Medieval Jewish History from Harvard University, department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, under the late Professor Isadore Twersky, Ztz”l. Rabbi Sendor has served as a visiting professor at Brandeis University, and an instructor for the Me’ah Program of Hebrew College. He lectures on medieval Jewish history, medieval Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah, the philosophy of Jewish law, the history of Jews and medicine and Jewish medical ethics, and serves on Bioethics Advisory Boards. His doctoral dissertation, The Emergence of Provencal Kabbalah: Rabbi Isaac the Blind’s Commentary on Sefer Yezirah, is being prepared for publication, and he has written on issues in Jewish spirituality, Halakhah and Jewish history.