Moshe Halbertal

Moshe Halbertal
Moshe Halbertal

Moshe Halbertal in 2009.
Born Moshe Halbertal
1958
 Uruguay
Nationality Uruguayan
Occupation philosopher, professor, writer
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Moshe Halbertal

Moshe Halbertal (b. Montevideo, Uruguay, 1958), is a noted Israeli Jewish philosopher, professor and writer.

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Biography

He is a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University, and a faculty member at the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. From 1988-92 he was a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (1988-92). Halbertal has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and New York University Law School. He received his B.A. in Jewish Thought and Philosophy from Hebrew University, cum laude, in 1984, and his PhD from Hebrew University in 1989.

Halbertal was reared in Israel in a modern Orthodox family. His father was a Holocaust survivor from Łańcut, Galicia (Central-Eastern Europe), his mother an Israeli who had come to Uruguay to teach Hebrew. [1]

He received the Rothschild Foundation's Bruno Award and the Goren Goldstein Award for the "Best Book in Jewish Thought" in the years 1997-2000. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Jewish Review of Books.

Positions

Orthodoxy

According to Halbertal, what “distinguishes between the so-called ultra-Orthodox point of view and a modern Orthodox or modern approach (is) that tradition doesn’t monopolize all of value, all of truth.” [1]

Religion and State

Halbertal believes that the Israeli government ought to finance and subsidize religious education, synagogues and mikvahs, but not impose doctrinal tests on these institutions. In his view, individuals should have an equal opportunity to form Orthodox, Reform, or other kinds of congregations with the same access to state funding. [1]

Democracy

Halbertal is profoundly committed to the democratic process. “Democracy is a non-violent form of adjudicating different ideologies. It’s very easy to be non-violent when stakes are low; in Israel we are in a condition where the stakes are very high. It’s a tribute to Israel that it has managed to maintain democracy under such conditions of diversity and high political stakes. I would like to see other Western states deal with this condition without becoming fascistic.” [1]

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Publications

  • Idolatry, co-authored with Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum (Harvard University Press, 1992)
  • Interpretative Revolutions in the Making (Hebrew) (Magnes Press, 1997)
  • People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority (Harvard University Press, 1997)
  • Between Torah and Wisdom: Menachem ha-Meiri and the Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence (Hebrew) (Magnes Press, 2000) (Goldstein-Goren award for the best book in Jewish thought in the years 1997-2000)
  • Concealment and Revelation: The Secret and its Boundaries in Medieval Jewish Thought (Yeriot, 2001)

translated from Hebrew by Jackie Feldman as Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications (Princeton University Press, 2007)

  • By Way of Truth: Nachmanides and the Creation of Tradition (Hebrew) (Shalom Hartman Institute, 2006)
  • Judaism and the Challenges of Modern Life, co-edited with Donniel Hartman (Continuum, 2007)
  • Maimonides (Hebrew) (Merkaz Zalman Shazar series, 2009)

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