Rabbi Joshua Kulp (; born July 16, 1970) is an American-Israeli

Talmudic scholar The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of Haskalah#Effects, modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cen ...

Early life and education

Kulp was born on July 16, 1970, in the United States and grew up in Margate, New Jersey. He earned his undergraduate degree at the

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and his

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in Talmud at

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

. In 2023, Kulp received

semikhah ''Semikhah'' () is the traditional term for rabbiinic ordination in Judaism. The original ''semikhah'' was the formal "transmission of authority" from Moses through the generations. This form of ''semikhah'' ceased between 360 and 425 CE. Si ...

from Hadar as a member of Hadar's first cohort of rabbinical students.

Career

Kulp is especially known for his commentary on the

Haggadah The Haggadah (, "telling"; plural: Haggadot) is a foundational Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. According to Jewish practice, reading the Haggadah at the Seder table fulfills the mitzvah incumbent on every Jew to reco ...

. Kulp was one of the founders of the Conservative Yeshiva, where he is () a faculty member and senior scholar. He also coordinates the online Mishnah Yomit and Daf Shevui projects through the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, the congregational organization for

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Personal life

He has two daughters (Zoey and Rakia) and two sons (Yadin and Anan) and lives in

Modi'in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut ( ''Mōdīʿīn-Makkabbīm-Rēʿūt'') is a city located in central Israel, about southeast of Tel Aviv and west of Jerusalem, and is connected to those two cities via Route 443 (Israel), Highway 443. In the population ...

as of 2023.

Books

* ''The Schechter Haggadah'', 2009 * ''Reconstructing the Talmud'', Mechon Hadar, 2014

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kulp, Joshua 1970 births Living people 20th-century American rabbis 21st-century American rabbis American Conservative rabbis American emigrants to Israel American male non-fiction writers Bar-Ilan University alumni Conservative rosh yeshivas Israeli Conservative rabbis Israeli people of American-Jewish descent Jewish American non-fiction writers Jewish scholars People from Margate City, New Jersey People from Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut Writers from Atlantic County, New Jersey