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Louis M. Epstein
Louis M. Epstein (1887-1949), born in Anyksciai, Lithuania, was an American Conservative rabbi and scholar of Jewish marriage law. He studied in the yeshivah in Slobodka before emigrating to the United States and graduating from Columbia University. After receiving semikhah at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1913, he served in Dallas and Toledo before, in 1918, being appointed as rabbi of Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol in Roxbury, Massachusetts and soon after to Kehilath Israel in Brookline. Rabbi Epstein serves as president of the nascent Rabbinical Assembly (1922-1925) and chaired its committee on Jewish Law (1936-1940). He is best known for his proposal for solving the halakhic problem of agunot as presented in Li-She'elat ha-Agunah (1940). He wrote The Jewish Marriage Contract (1927), Marriage Laws in the Bible and Talmud (1942), and Sex Laws and Customs in Judaism (1948).[Prayer] for Knowledge and Understanding, by Rabbi Louis M. Epstein
Contributed on: 04 Sep 2022 by ❧
“[Prayer] For Knowledge and Understanding” by Rabbi Louis M. Epstein was published in Rabbi Morrison David Bial’s anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 18, from where this prayer was transcribed. When exactly this prayer was first written is not known to us, but it had to be before Rabbi Epstein’s death in 1949. If you know more, please leave a comment or contact us. . . .
Teach Us to Be Thankful, by Rabbi Louis M. Epstein (1962)
Contributed on: 05 Sep 2022 by ❧
“Teach Us to Be Thankful” by Rabbi Louis M. Epstein was first published in Rabbi Morrison David Bial’s anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 36, from where this prayer was transcribed. . . .
