Some in his community compare him to Maimonides, one of Andalusian Spain’s greatest Jewish scholars, whose statue is in Córdoba, a rabbi, court physician, philosopher, metaphysician and astronomer. Avraham Steinberg is amused by the comparison. This 74-year-old man could have been content with being a rabbi, like all his paternal ancestors. He chose to combine his life with knowledge.
The professor of medicine in Jerusalem is a specialist in pediatric neurology at the Shaare Zedek Center. But his problem occupies him only part of the day. The rest of the time, this simple-minded scientist heads the editorial board of the Talmudic encyclopedia. It is a scientific and titanic project, 80 years old, and which the scientist has a mission to complete in 2024. “In total, this is 22,500 thematic posts, we have already written 1,800, but we are nearing the end.” promises Avraham Steinberg.
We dare not question the professor’s method of calculation, which, if found to be correct…
Source: Le Figaro
