Let My People Know: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s Son on His Father’s Legacy

He was called a “once-in-a-millennium scholar.”

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz z”l was a physicist by training who became a towering Torah authority — a prolific author of over 300 titles, an Israel Prize laureate, the first person since the medieval sage Rashi to produce a complete commentary on the entire Babylonian Talmud, and the first ever to translate it into modern Hebrew. It took him 45 years.

In this conversation on Jewish Insights with Justin Pines, his son Rabbi Menachem “Meni” Even-Israel — CEO of the Steinsaltz Center in Jerusalem (https://steinsaltz-center.org/)— reflects on the man behind the mission: the scholar, the teacher, and the father. 

We also celebrate the release of a landmark new English edition of the Mishneh Torah (https://korenpub.com/products/steinsaltz-rambam-mishne-torah-volume-1), the great legal code of Maimonides — produced by the Steinsaltz Center not simply as a translation, but as a full study companion with commentary, halachic discussion, diagrams, and context, designed to make this almost nine-hundred-year-old masterwork genuinely readable for the modern learner.