Was Professor Saul Lieberman “Orthodox” or “Conservative”? [1]
Was Professor Saul Lieberman “Orthodox” or “Conservative”? [1] by David Golinkin Saul Lieberman (1898–1983) is universally regarded by Talmud scholars as the foremost talmudist of his generation, and some regard him as one of the foremost talmudists of all times. Immanuel Low wrote to him in Hebrew in 1938: “In the depth of your articles there are many sparks of the spirit of the Gaon of Vilna.” E. S. Rosenthal wrote in Hebrew in 1963: “… until we can almost say…