Mordechai Willig
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Rabbi Mordechai I. Willig (born April 25, 1947 in New York) is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NY. His formal title is the Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth Professor of Talmud and Contemporary Halachah.
Rabbi Willig received a B.A. in mathematics in 1968 from Yeshiva College and an M.S. in Jewish history in 1971 from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.
He is also the rabbi at the Young Israel of Riverdale, in Riverdale, The Bronx, NY.
Rabbi Willig is the Deputy Av Beis Din of the Beis Din of America.
Rabbi Willig was a student of the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
Rabbi Willig is the author of a sefer entitled Am Mordechai, which came out in 2 volumes (1992 on Brachot and 2005 on Shabbat).
He currently resides with his wife in Riverdale, NY. He has nine children and 23 grandchildren.
[edit] Trivia
- Rabbi Willig is the first cousin of Rabbi Avi Weiss, who heads the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and is the dean of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
- His son, Rabbi Avraham Willig, currently resides in Israel with his wife and five children. He is a shiur teacher at Yeshivat Torat Shraga and Camp Morasha as well.
[edit] External Links
http://www.yutorah.org/roshei_yeshiva.cfm
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