In his community, some compare him to Maimonides, one of the greatest Jewish scholars of Andalusian Spain whose statue sits in Cordoba, rabbi, court doctor, philosopher, metaphysician and astronomer.
Avraham Steinberg has fun with the comparison.
This 74-year-old man could have contented himself with being a rabbi, like all his paternal ancestors.
He preferred to combine his life with knowledge.
In Jerusalem, the professor of medicine is a specialist in pediatric neurology at the Shaare Zedek Center.
But his task occupies him only part of the day.
The rest of the time, this simple and composed scientist heads the editorial board of the Talmudic Encyclopedia.
This is a scholarly and titanic project, 80 years old, and which the scholar has the mission to complete in 2024.
“In total, that makes 22,500 thematic entries, we have already written 1,800, but we are approaching of the end",
promises Avraham Steinberg.
We dare not question the professor's calculation method which, if it turns out to be correct...
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