Eliyahu (Elijah, Elias, or Elie) Zevi Soloveitchik (Soloweyczyk) ( he, אליהו סולובייצ'יק; c. 1805–1881) was a Lithuanian rabbi, author and translator from Slutsk. Soloveitchik was a grandson of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin (b. 1749) and the uncle of Rabbi

Yosef Dov Soloveitchik Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (born 1820 in Nesvizh, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire; died May 1, 1892 in Brest-Litovsk, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire) was the author of Beis Halevi, by which name he is better known among Talmudic scholars. He w ...

, the Beis Halevi (b. 1820). In 1870 he published a Hebrew commentary on the Gospel of Matthew called ''Kol Kore'' (The Calling Voice) which was translated into French, German and English as ''The Bible, the Talmud and the Gospel''. The work followed the approach of Jacob Emden and sought to explain the Talmud to Christians and the Gospel to Jews and to demonstrate the common grounds of belief.Pinchas Lapide -Israelis, Jews, and Jesus 1979 - Page 112 "The first modern commentary on the Gospels in Hebrew was written by an Orthodox rabbi, Dr. Elie Soloweyczyk, ... and later translated into German under the title The Bible, the Talmud, and the Gospel," He also published a commentary on the Yad Hachazakah of Maimonides. His English translation of the Mishneh Torah was completed in 1857 and published in England in 1863 by Thomas William Nicholson of London. In his later life he became blind. Eliyahu Zevi Soloveitchik was the father of

Simchah Ha-Levi Soloveitchik ''Simcha'' ( he, שִׂמְחָה ; , ) is a Hebrew word that means gladness, or joy, and is often used as a given name. Uses The concept of simcha is an important one in Jewish philosophy. A popular teaching by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, a 19th ...

(c. 1830-1921), who emigrated to Jerusalem where he was called "The Londoner." His son was a Jerusalem community worker and pharmacist known as

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(b. 1874) who was the father of Yitzchak Leib (b. 1895) who emigrated to New York and changed the family name to Salovey; he was known for his work caring for the infirm and elderly of the community. His daughter Chaya Sarah married Rabbi Mordechai Yehoshua Kreuzer, one of the ancestors of the Kreuzer family. His son, Ronald (b. 1932), was a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and at the Technion in Haifa. Ronald is the father of Peter Salovey (b. 1958), who became President of

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in 2013 and is the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology there.

English edition

*''The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels'' (Jewish Culture and Contexts), edited Shaul Magid, translator Jordan Gayle Levy, with Peter Salovey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. ISBN 9780812250992

References

The Soloveitchik Who Loved Jesus

Thoughts on "Confrontation" and Sundry Matters, Part I
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