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Rabbi Zeev Haim Lifshitz, a scion of the great Lithuanian, scholarly dynasties, was born in
Israel. He first learned Torah from his gifted father, a disciple of the Hofetz Haim,
and an eminent alumnus of the Lomzhe and Hevron talmudical academies. As a child
Rabbi Lifshitz "sheltered in the shade" cast by the Hazon Ish, and as a young man, he
served as Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg's right-hand man, participating closely in the
composition and editing of Rabbi Weinberg's responsa series, Seridei Esh. For many
years he was a talmid muvhak of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and he maintained
close personal ties over the decades with his illustrious cousins, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein,
author of the renowned Iggerot Moshe, and Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik.
Trained in the analytical methodologies of Torah study propounded by the Lithuanian
yeshivot, Rabbi Lifshitz embodies the true spirit of the Torah as it was promulgated by
the illustrious Lithuanian and Chassidic sages, and as such is an authentic representative
of Torah Judaism.
A student of Jean Piaget's in Geneva for six years, Rabbi Lifshitz has founded the
independent, Sadnat Enosh (Human Workshop) Institute, which perfects and puts into
practice Rabbi Lifshitz's own theoretical formulations regarding Jewish psychology in
the form of diagnostic and counseling techniques.
Over
the last few years, Rabbi Lifshitz has also published several
volumes of his thoughts on the weekly Torah portion in Hebrew
entitled Zahalti va-Eira
(Awestruck and
Fearful). This website is dedicated to the translation and promulgation of these Torah
thoughts.
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