The work of Rabbi Naftali vi Yehuda Berlin, the Ne iv, ranks amongst the most often read rabbinic literature of the Nineteenth century.
He has earned rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University and sits on the editorial board of Ha-Yedion, RAVSAK\'s journal of Jewish education, as well as the advisory council of the Institute for University-School Partnership at Yeshiva University..
About the Author: Gil Perl (Ph D Harvard University) is the Dean of the Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South, a Prek-12 private school serving the Jewish community of Memphis.
In The Pillar of Volozhin, Gil Perl traces the influences which helped mold and shape the Ne iv\'s thinking while also opening new doors into the World of early-nineteenth-Century Lithuanian Torah scholarship, an area heretofore almost completely untouched by academic research.
Yet, to date, there has been no comprehensive and systematic attempt to place his intellectual oeuvre into its historical context-until now.
His breadth of learning, unabashed creativity, and penchant for walking against the stream of the rabbinic commentarial establishment has made his commentaries a favorite amongst rabbinic scholars and scholars of rabbinics alike.
The work of Rabbi Naftali vi Yehuda Berlin, the Ne iv, ranks amongst the most often read rabbinic literature of the Nineteenth century
