Panel Discussion - The Techeiles Revolution

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Rabbi Dr. David Shabtai, Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz and Rav Herschel Schachter offer the history and halachah of modern techeiles. Introductory remarks by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg. --- Participants: Rabbi David Shabtai, MD serves as the rabbi of our Sephardic Minyan. He also teaches at Yeshiva High School as well as at Yeshiva University. Rabbi Shabtai received his semikhah from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, affiliate of Yeshiva University and his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. He has a particular interest in medical halakhah and Jewish bioethics and has authored, Defining the Moment: Understanding Brain Death in Halakhah and writes and lectures on a wide range of medical and scientific ethical issues. He is married to Monica and together are parents to Gavriel, Elyada, Eliyahu, Rivkah, Yosef Chaim, and Aharon. Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz is the director of Semikhah at RIETS as well as the Mara D'atra of Beis Haknesses of North Woodmere. He was previously a rebbe at Lander's College for Men and an eleventh grade Rebbe at the DRS Yeshiva High School (HALB). Rabbi Efrem Goldberg is the Senior Rabbi of Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS), the largest Orthodox Synagogue in the Southeast United States, serving over 850 families and over 1,000 children in Boca Raton, Florida. For more content, visit http://www.rabbiefremgoldberg.org.