On this edition of By the Book, sponsored by Koren Publishers, Nachum Segal interviewed Rabbi Reuven Ziegler on the Israel Prize, being bestowed on Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, on Israel Independence Day

From the YU website:

“Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein was be awarded the Israel Prize in Jewish religious literature this year on May 6, Israel’s Independence Day. The announcement was made Sunday, February 23, by Israel’s Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron. Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein a renowned author and scholar, Rabbi Lichtenstein is a former Rosh Yeshiva at YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and Rosh Kollel and director of the RIETS Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem.”

Rabbi Reuven Ziegler is Director of Research and Archives of the Toras HoRav Foundation and has edited numerous volumes of Rabbi Soloveitchik’s writings. He is also a founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion’s Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash and serves as its Editor-in-Chief.

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