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Zevulun Charlop
Zevulun Charlop (December 14, 1929 – January 16, 2024) was an American rabbi, who served as dean of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), an affiliate of Yeshiva University (YU). He was also president of several major Jewish organizations, in the United States and Israel.
Charlop was born in 1929 the Bronx to Yechiel Michael Charlop. His father was ordained at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), the same institution his son would later administer. The elder Charlop served in pulpits around the United States in the early 1920s, but had come back to New York City to be rabbi of the Bronx Jewish Center several years before the younger Charlop was born. The family has a long tradition of rabbinics and claims to trace its ancestry to King David.
Zevulun Charlop attended Yeshiva Salanter (later merged into SAR Academy) in the Bronx for elementary school, and Talmudical Academy for high school.
Charlop was admitted to Yeshiva University in the 1940s, when its seminary's religious leadership was primarily Eastern European. He was ordained there, and also earned secular degrees at the affiliated Yeshiva College in 1951 and at Columbia University.
Charlop taught Talmud at the James Striar School, in his earliest staff role at Yeshiva University. He was also editor of the school's alumni's scholarly jourmal, Chavrusa.
He was appointed dean of RIETS in 1971 on the retirement of his predecessor, Reuven Aberman. The position is formally the Max and Marian Grill Dean of the Rabbi Issac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Charlop served in that role for 37 years.
By the time he retired in 2008, the seminary had more than doubled its student body, and its leadership was primarily developed from within its own ranks. Yeshiva called him an architect of the university.
"Turning a yeshiva into a big tent can be a dangerous thing; if we start lessening our inward Torah focus then we may start neutralizing learning and, rahamana litslan, yir’as shamayim [God have mercy, our fear of heaven]. In order to be able to sustain the multifaceted world that we have here in Yeshiva, we have to be deeper in the core. So long as we know that in this process we may be willy-nilly, lightening the thrust of our Torah learning, then widening the tent cannot be achieved. Rather, we must widen and, indeed, deepen our Torah learning and kiyyum ha-mitsvos [fulfill the commandments] at the core."
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Zevulun Charlop
Zevulun Charlop (December 14, 1929 – January 16, 2024) was an American rabbi, who served as dean of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), an affiliate of Yeshiva University (YU). He was also president of several major Jewish organizations, in the United States and Israel.
Charlop was born in 1929 the Bronx to Yechiel Michael Charlop. His father was ordained at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), the same institution his son would later administer. The elder Charlop served in pulpits around the United States in the early 1920s, but had come back to New York City to be rabbi of the Bronx Jewish Center several years before the younger Charlop was born. The family has a long tradition of rabbinics and claims to trace its ancestry to King David.
Zevulun Charlop attended Yeshiva Salanter (later merged into SAR Academy) in the Bronx for elementary school, and Talmudical Academy for high school.
Charlop was admitted to Yeshiva University in the 1940s, when its seminary's religious leadership was primarily Eastern European. He was ordained there, and also earned secular degrees at the affiliated Yeshiva College in 1951 and at Columbia University.
Charlop taught Talmud at the James Striar School, in his earliest staff role at Yeshiva University. He was also editor of the school's alumni's scholarly jourmal, Chavrusa.
He was appointed dean of RIETS in 1971 on the retirement of his predecessor, Reuven Aberman. The position is formally the Max and Marian Grill Dean of the Rabbi Issac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Charlop served in that role for 37 years.
By the time he retired in 2008, the seminary had more than doubled its student body, and its leadership was primarily developed from within its own ranks. Yeshiva called him an architect of the university.
"Turning a yeshiva into a big tent can be a dangerous thing; if we start lessening our inward Torah focus then we may start neutralizing learning and, rahamana litslan, yir’as shamayim [God have mercy, our fear of heaven]. In order to be able to sustain the multifaceted world that we have here in Yeshiva, we have to be deeper in the core. So long as we know that in this process we may be willy-nilly, lightening the thrust of our Torah learning, then widening the tent cannot be achieved. Rather, we must widen and, indeed, deepen our Torah learning and kiyyum ha-mitsvos [fulfill the commandments] at the core."