Yehuda (Leo) Levi

Yehuda (Leo) Levi

Yehuda (Leo) Levi (1926- ) was Rector and Professor of Electro-optics at the Jerusalem College of Technology. He is best known as the author of several books on Science and Judaism, and Judaism in contemporary society, as well as on physics.

Biography

Professor Levi was born in Germany and was educated in the United States. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in electrical engineering from City College, N.Y. and his Ph.D in Physics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1964. He studied Torah at the Gur Aryeh kollel, and received semicha (Rabbinic ordination) from Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner and additionally from Rabbi Joseph Breuer.

In 1970 he settled in Jerusalem with his wife and three sons, where he founded the electro-optics department of the Jerusalem College of Technology. He served as Rector of the college from 1981 to 1988.

He was a Fellow of the Gur Aryeh Institute for Advanced Jewish Scholarship, has been president of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists [http://www.aojs.org/history.asp#2] , both in the U.S.A. and in Israel, and is the recipient of the Feder (Torah & Science) and Abramowitz-Zeitlin (Jewish literature) awards.

He is currently on the faculty of "Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim" (The Jerusalem Academy of Jewish Studies) [http://www.dvar.org.il/] .

Works

In addition to over 100 articles published in various scientific, technical, and Judaica journals, Prof. Levi has published several books. He is known for combining analysis of practical issues in Jewish law with philosophic discussion.

*On Physics
**"Applied Optics", 2 vols. (Wiley, 1968 & 1980. ISBN 0471080519)
**"Handbook of Tables for Applied Optics" (CRC, 1974. ISBN 0878193715)

*On Science and Torah
**"Vistas from Mt. Moriah: A Scientist Views Judaism and the World" (Gur Aryeh Institute, 1959)
**"Torah and Science - Their Interplay in the World Scheme" (Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, New York, and Feldheim Publishers, 1983)
**"The Science in Torah" (Feldheim, 2004. ISBN 1583306579); heb. "ha-Mada sheba-Torah" (Reuven Mas, 2001)
**"Jewish Chrononomy" (Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists and Gur Aryeh Institute, 1967)
**"Halachic Times for Home and Travel" (Rubin Mass, 1992)

*On Torah in contemporary society
**"Torah Study: A Survey of Classic Sources on Timely Issues" (Feldheim, 1990. ISBN 0873065557)
**"Man & Woman: The Torah Perspective" (Feldheim, 1979)
**"Sha'arey Talmud Torah" (Heb. Feldheim, 1981)
**"Mul Etgarei Hatekufah" (Sinai, 1988); translation "Facing Current Challenges" (Hemed, 1998)

*On Talmud
**"Kav VeNaki" - with Rabbi Aryeh Carmell - a three-volume study guide in Hebrew to Seder Zeraim of the Jerusalem Talmud

External links and references

* [http://www.borhatorah.org/home/oldcontents/bio9g.html Prof. Yehudah Levi] , Bio on borhatorah.org
* [http://www.judaism.com/authors.asp?author=yehudah%20levi Yehudah Levi] , Author Bio on judaism.com


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