{"id":122678,"date":"2022-07-19T12:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T09:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/?p=122678"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:24:42","slug":"halivni_scholem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/halivni_scholem\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Scholarly Giants: Prof. David Halivni &#038; Prof. Gershom Scholem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Talmudic scholar, Rabbi Prof. David Halivni (1927-2022), who recently passed away in Jerusalem and who was a near-permanent presence at the National Library of Israel for many years, had a friendship of sorts with the scholar of Kabbalah, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/discover\/judaism\/figures\/gershom-scholem\">Prof. Gershom Scholem<\/a> (1897-1982).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scholem was 30 years older than Halivni, so it wasn\u2019t an \u201ceven\u201d friendship. I suspect that it was initially established via Prof. Shaul Lieberman, Halivni\u2019s mentor and a very close friend of Scholem. I once asked Prof. Halivni what Scholem and Lieberman had in common, as they seemed to have come from such different backgrounds, lived different lifestyles and had different scholarly pursuits (there is an urban legend that the Lieberman was once in Scholem\u2019s apartment, with a library of some 30,000 volumes, and quipped, \u201cBut there is nothing here to read!\u201d). Prof. Halivni answered, \u201cThey were both lovers of Torah\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When R. Halivni left the Jewish Theological Seminary in the 1980s over the issue of women\u2019s ordination, Scholem reacted incredulously, remarking, \u201cbut you are the Wellhausen of the Talmud!\u201d, a reference to Julius Wellhausen, the father of Higher Biblical Criticism, and seemingly comparing the German scholar&#8217;s work to Halivni\u2019s own Source Critical approach to Talmudic analysis. Apparently Scholem was incapable of understanding how one could be simultaneously a critical text scholar as well as a conservative halachasist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Scholem Collection there is one offprint of a Halivni article and a photocopy of another. The offprint is of \u201cContemporary Methods of the Study of the Talmud\u201d (Journal of Jewish Studies 30:2, Autumn 1979), and is annotated with Scholem\u2019s marginalia. It is possible that Scholem also possessed some of Halivni\u2019s books as well. Not everything from his home collection came to the Library, but that deserves a separate discussion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122679\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-122679\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article1-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article1-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article1-790x600.jpg 790w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article1-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article1.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a copy of \u201cContemporary Methods of the Study of the Talmud\u201d (Journal of Jewish Studies 30:2, Autumn 1979) &#8211; Scholem&#8217;s notes in Hebrew and English (&#8220;He was right!&#8221;, &#8220;He should have elaborated&#8221;, &#8220;So what?&#8221;&#8230;) can be seen in the margins, the Gershom Scholem Collection at the National Library of Israel (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since we mentioned R. Lieberman, I will close with a little-known anecdote that Prof. Halivni once shared with me. The first time he visited Israel (early 60s I believe) was to lecture at the World Congress of Jewish Studies. When he entered the lecture hall he saw the Israeli author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/discover\/literature-and-poetry\/authors\/shmuel-yosef-agnon\">S.Y. Agnon<\/a> (whom he recognized from pictures) sitting in the front row. He couldn\u2019t figure out what he was doing there. When he returned to New York he mentioned this to R. Lieberman who chuckled and said, \u201cAgnon is always telling me that I probably don\u2019t have any good students in the Diaspora, so I told him he should go listen to you\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On that note, in 1963, the American Hebrew newspaper,<em> HaDoar<\/em>, printed a special edition in honor of Lieberman\u2019s 65<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. In his \u201cad\u201d which appeared in the edition, Agnon reflected sadly upon R. Lieberman living outside of Israel (though Lieberman did also own an apartment in Jerusalem, close to that of Scholem, were he spent a good deal of time during his later years), concluding, \u201cAs long as most of <em>Am Yisrael<\/em> is in exile it is good that this scholar, a true <em>Gaon<\/em>, is in your midst, for surely <em>HaShem<\/em> sent him as a salvation for you, to raise up a great remnant\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122685\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-122685\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article2-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article2-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article2-439x600.jpg 439w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/article2.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cAs long as most of Am Yisrael is in exile it is good that this scholar, a true Gaon, is in your midst, for surely HaShem sent him as a salvation for you, to raise up a great remnant.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0 S.Y. Agnon on Prof. Shaul Lieberman in a special 1963 edition of HaDoar. Lieberman was Halivni&#8217;s mentor, and the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 also published an article in the same edition. The Gershom Scholem Collection at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof. Halivni also had an article in the same edition of <em>HaDoar<\/em>, titled &#8211; &#8220;\u05dc\u05e4\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9\u05d4 \u05e9\u05dc \u05e1\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9\u05dc\u05de\u05d9&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Professors, Scholem and Halivni, participated in a program in 1973 called &#8220;The Religious Dimension of Judaism&#8221;, hosted by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. In it, Scholem read a paper and Halivni was one of the responders. You can listen to a recording of the event <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ybc-fbr-791_4790\/01-791-1A.wav\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May the memory of all of these great scholars be for a blessing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Zvi Leshem, Director of the Gershom Scholem Collection, shares some personal memories of his own Rabbi and mentor, Prof. David Halivni, who recently passed away and whose path crossed with that of the legendary Kabbalah scholar\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":122753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[1707,1866,1536,224],"tags2":[2721,2781,2651,2665],"class_list":["post-122678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judaism","tag-gershom-scholem","tag-jewish","tag-jewish-culture","tag-judaism"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two Scholarly Giants: Prof. David Halivni &amp; 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