Dovid Gottlieb (born Dale Victor Gottlieb) is a senior faculty member at ''

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'' in

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. An author and lecturer, Rabbi Gottlieb received his

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in mathematical logic at

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and later become ( visiting)

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. A student of

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, he received a doctorate in 1970 for his thesis ''The Use of Formal Systems in Logic and Mathematics''. ''The Informed Soul'' was published by

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in 1990, and has recently been reprinted.

Personal

Rabbi Gottlieb was married to

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Leeba Gottlieb, who died in January 2020. He married Rebbetzin

Tziporah Heller Tziporah Heller Gottlieb is an American-born Haredi educator, author, and speaker based in Jerusalem. She is a senior faculty member at the Neve Yerushalayim College for Women, principal of the Bnos Avigail seminary on the Neve campus, and a lectur ...

on May 12, 2020. His brother is Roger S. Gottlieb, a professor of philosophy and researcher in

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Books

*''Ontological Economy: Substitutional Quantification and Mathematics'', OUP, 1980 *''The Informed Soul'', Artscroll/Mesorah, 1990 *''Reason to Believe '', Mosaica Press, 2017

References

External links

Rabbi Gottlieb's homepage
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