Moshe Meiselman

Rabbi Moshe Meiselman
Position	Rosh yeshiva
Yeshiva	Yeshiva Toras Moshe
Began	1982
Other	Founder and Dean of Academic Affairs, Yeshiva University of Los Angeles
Personal details
Birth name	Moshe Meiselman
Born	March 14, 1942 Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
Father	Harry Meiselman
Mother	Shulamit Soloveitchik
Spouse	Rivkah Leah Eichenstein
Alma mater	Boston Latin Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moshe Meiselman is an American-born Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Toras Moshe in Jerusalem, which he established in 1982. He also founded and served as principal of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) from 1977 to 1982. He is a descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty.

Meiselman was born to Harry Meiselman, a dental surgeon, and Shulamit Soloveitchik, a teacher and Jewish school principal who attended New York University and Radcliffe College. On his mother's side, he is a descendant of the Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. His maternal grandfather was Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik and his maternal great-grandfather was Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, known as Reb Chaim Brisker. His mother, Shulamit, authored the book The Soloveitchik Heritage: A Daughter's Memoir (1995). Meiselman was a nephew of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, rosh yeshiva of R.I.E.T.S., with whom, according to Meiselman, he had study sessions on a near daily basis from the time he was 18 until he was 29 years old .

Meiselman graduated from high school at the Boston Latin School and then went on to attend Harvard University (the undergraduate school which all three of Soloveitchik's children and his American grandchildren attended) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the latter institution, he studied under Dr Donald Werner Anderson and earned his doctorate in mathematics in 1967 with the thesis "The Operation Ring for Connective K-Theory". While Meiselman's sole formal education (including high school through post-graduate school) took place at secular institutions, rather than Yeshivot, Meiselman's students report that was strong in his haredi viewpoint even at this young age. They report that he would often debate teachers of philosophy on points of religion, stressing his strong religious views in an extremely secular environment.

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