Mordechai Willig

Mordechai Willig
Rabbi Mordechai Willig
Position Rabbi
Synagogue Young Israel of Riverdale
Position Rosh Yeshiva
Yeshiva RIETS
Personal details
Born April 25, 1947 (1947-04-25) (age 64)
New York
Nationality  United States of America
Denomination Orthodox
Residence Riverdale, New York
Semicha RIETS

Mordechai Willig (April 25, 1947(1947-04-25)) is an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan. His formal title is the Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth Professor of Talmud and Contemporary Halachah.

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Education

Born in New York, Willig received a B.A. in mathematics in 1968 from Yeshiva College and an M.S. in Jewish history in 1971 from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He was a student of the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Positions

In 1973, Willig was appointed as rosh yeshiva at the Mazer School of Talmudic studies at Yeshiva University and holds that position, along with the position of rosh kollel at RIETS.

Willig is the rabbi and spiritual leader at the Young Israel of Riverdale Synagogue, in Riverdale, The Bronx, New York, since 1974.

Willig is also the deputy av beis din of the Beth Din of America.

Books

Willig is the author of a sefer entitled Am Mordechai, which came out in three volumes (1992 on Brachot, 2005 on Shabbat and 2010 on Seder Moed).

Lanner case

In 1989, Rabbi Willig led a Bet Din that heard allegations of abuse by Rabbi Baruch Lanner.[1] The Bet Din found Lanner guilty of three charges and found three other charges to be unsubstantiated.[2] The Bet Din read their determination to the litigants, to the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County, and to Lanner's two employers, the Orthodox Union and a synagogue in New Milford, New Jersey.[2]

On February 19, 2003, Rabbi Willig publicly apologized for reaching what he eventually realized to be incorrect conclusions and for other "mistakes" made during the 1989 Bet Din proceedings. He noted that since the Bet Din did not have experience adjudicating matters of abuse, they should not have agreed to take the case.[2][3]

Family

Rabbi Willig resides with his wife in Riverdale, New York, New York. They have nine children and 34 grandchildren. Five of his children live in Israel, teaching at various Yeshivos, among them Yeshivat Torat Shraga in Jerusalem and Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim in Beit Shemesh.

He is the first cousin of Rabbi Avi Weiss, who heads the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and is the dean of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.

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