This past week, President Reuven Ruvi Rivlin – ראובן רובי ריבלין ,met with the winners of the Katz Prize. Among the winners is Rabbi Asher (Osher) Zelig Weiss, the posek for Shaare Zedek Medical Center, who was unable to attend the special meeting.
The Katz Prize was established to identify and recognize individuals and projects that deal with the implementation of Jewish Law in modern-day life in written pieces of work and practical projects.
The Katz Prize wrote about Rav Weiss, “His legal rulings are cornerstones and guidelines for rabbis, medical and legal personnel, and the wide public that come to rely on his rulings…For many years, he has served as the rabbi of Shaare Zedek hospital, which made him a loadstone for questions in the field of medicine from all over the world…The Rav is blessed with genius and an imitable power of explanation…His ability to disseminate Torah to the Litvish , Chareidi and the dati-leumi world in all their variances, as well as wide populations abroad who speak English and Yiddish is unparalleled.
His prolific teachings have reverberated to such a degree until it appears that there is no response dealing with the crossroads between Torah and medicine, Torah and science, and Torah and technology, that doesn’t mention Rav Weiss’s views on the topic….”
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