Rabbi Yisroel Taplin is an American

Talmud The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law ('' halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the ce ...

scholar and author of a work of Jewish Law (

Halacha ''Halakha'' (; he, הֲלָכָה, ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical comman ...

) concerning the International Date Line. Taplin studied in

Beth Medrash Govoha Beth Medrash Govoha ( he, בית מדרש גבוה, Sephardi pronunciation: ''Beth Midrash Gavoha''. lit: "High House of Learning"; also known as Lakewood Yeshiva or BMG) is a Haredi Jewish Lithuanian ''yeshiva'' in Lakewood Township, New Jerse ...

Lakewood Township, New Jersey Lakewood Township is the most populous township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A rapidly growing community as of the 2020 U.S. census, the township had a total population of 135,158 representing an increase of 41,415 (+45.5 ...

, where he continues to study and reside. He initially began his studies there under the tutelage of its founder, Rabbi Aharon Kotler. He holds the position of Official Examiner ("bochen") for Beth Medrash Govoha. Taplin's magnum opus was first published in Hebrew under the title ''Taarich Yisroel'' (תאריך ישראל); it was subsequently condensed and adopted into English (''The Date Line in Halacha'') by Zalman Tropper in 1999 and "thoroughly reviewed" by Taplin himself, with another edition being republished through Feldheim Publications in 2003. His work explores the various opinions on the location of the international date line as recognized by Jewish Law and the various outcomes of the differences between the varying opinions spanning many facets of Jewish Law.

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Audio: Rabbi Yisroel Taplin being interviewed about his mentor Rabbi Aharon Kotler
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: Online version of the book (albeit missing Appendix A: Maps . 79–88 in print edition *
Yisroel Taplin on Amazon.com
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American Orthodox rabbis Beth Medrash Govoha People from Lakewood Township, New Jersey Talmudists Rabbis from New Jersey 21st-century American Jews {{US-rabbi-stub