Dov Linzer

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Rabbi Dov Linzer
דב נתן לינזר
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Alma materYeshivat Har Etzion, Yeshiva University, University of Maryland, Columbia University
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Websiterabbidovlinzer.blogspot.com, www.the-daf.com, weeklyparsha.wordpress.com

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Dov Linzer (Hebrew: דב נתן לינזר; born September 16, 1966) is the President and Rabbinic Head (Rosh HaYeshiva) of the Modern Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in Riverdale, New York. He is a teacher, lecturer, podcaster, and author.

He has a BA in philosophy from the University of Maryland, semicha from the Israeli Rabbinate and is a doctoral candidate in religion at Columbia University. He is an alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion and Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel Elyon. Rabbi Linzer has been a scholar-in-residence in synagogues across the United States, and has published in numerous Talmudic journals and Jewish newspapers. Previously, he headed the Boca Raton Kollel, one of the first Modern Orthodox kollels, for the first two-and-a-half years of its existence.[1][2]

In 2011, Newsweek ranked him among the 50 most prominent rabbis in the United States, [3] stating that "Linzer's students now hold some of the most prominent positions in shuls and Hillels all over the country" and that his school's "alumni will undoubtedly alter the fabric of Modern Orthodoxy".

In 2008, Linzer received the prestigious Avi Chai Fellowship,[4][5] awarded to emerging communal and educational leaders.

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah

Linzer has been the Rabbinic Head of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah since its founding in 1999. He was named its dean, assuming ultimate responsibility of both the religious studies and the professional training, in October, 2007. He is widely recognized as a major scholar of Talmud and Halakha,[6] and is the primary architect of the school's innovative curriculum.[7] In 2018 Rabbi Linzer was appointed as President of the yeshiva while continuing to serve as its Rabbinic Head. Linzer also teaches Halakha and Jewish Thought to the school's rabbinical students. In 2025, Rabbi Linzer announced that he would be stepping back from Presidential responsibilities in order to focus exclusively on being Rosh Yeshiva.[8]

In 2008, Linzer's Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, together with JOFA and the Drisha Institute sponsored a conference entitled "Demystifying Sex and Teaching Halacha: A Kallah (Jewish Bridal) Teacher's Workshop,"[9] to address issues of sex and sexuality into classes given to Orthodox brides prior to their wedding.

Linzer delivers a daily Daf Yomi class to men and women, available on iTunes[10] and YouTube.[11]

Two-Ring Ceremony

In 2003, Linzer wrote an article, "Towards a More Balanced Wedding Ceremony,",[12][13] describing ways of creating a more gender-balanced wedding ceremony while keeping within the letter of Jewish Law. His most innovative suggestion was that of a halakhic two-ring ceremony, informally known as the "Linzer Two-Ring Ceremony".[14][15] A standard Orthodox wedding ceremony has only the groom giving a ring to the bride and does not allow for the bride to give a ring to the groom other than in a purely symbolic fashion after the ceremony was completed. In contrast, Linzer's model has the bride giving a ring immediately after the groom does so, in the presence of witnesses, and serving a substantive halakhic (Jewish legal) function. This ceremony is seeing increasing use among liberal couples.[16]

Public Positions

Linzer has taken a public stand on a number of crucial and at times controversial issues within the Orthodox Jewish community. In 2006, he was the only Orthodox rabbi to go on record supporting the naming of Dina Najman as spiritual leader of the Orthodox congregation, Kehilat Orach Eliezer.[17]

Linzer, together with his wife, Devorah Zlochower, has been outspoken about the Orthodox community's responsibility to address children of special needs in its schools, synagogues and communal institutions.[18][19] At Linzer's Chovevei Torah, rabbinical students receive special training in inclusion for people with physical, developmental and learning disabilities.[20]

In 2010, a paper commissioned by the Rabbinical Council of America voiced serious reservations as to the validity of brain-stem death as the Jewish legal definition of death.[21] The rejection of this definition would make almost all organ-transplants forbidden by Jewish Law. Linzer authored a "Rabbinic Statement Regarding Organ Donation and Brain Death",[22] reaffirming the legitimacy of the brain-death definition and critiquing those who would be prepared to receive organs but refuse to donate them.[23] This statement was signed by over 100 rabbis, including some of the most prominent Modern Orthodox rabbis in the U.S. and Israel. The RCA subsequently backed away from the implications of its paper.[24] The Agudath Israel of America then issued a statement which affirmed the halakhic validity of the original 2010 paper commissioned by the RCA as reflecting the position of "a majority of major poskim today".[25] This, in turn, prompted the journal Tradition to publish a philosophical analysis of the merits of both Rabbi Linzer's and the Agudath Israel of America's respective statements.[26]

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  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Luo, Michael (August 21, 2006). "An Orthodox Jewish Woman, and Soon, a Spiritual Leader". The New York Times.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Message from the Rosh HaYeshiva: 'Invisible Disability' Kids Are Being Left Out". rabbidovlinzer.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Small Steps Toward Inclusion | Jewish Week". thejewishweek.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
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  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Rabbinic Statement Regarding Organ Donation and Brain Death". organdonationstatement.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Moral Consistency | Jewish Week". thejewishweek.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
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  26. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Rabbi Linzer – Agudath Israel Debate on Brain Death: Methodological Considerations by Aryeh Klapper | Text & Texture". text.rcarabbis.org. Archived from the original on 2017-02-25. Retrieved 2017-02-24.

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