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Daniel Sperber
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “professor of talmud at bar-ilan university in israel”. Today it says “british-born israeli academic and orthodox jewish rabbi”.
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Daniel Sperber Daniel Sperber ( Hebrew : דניאל שפרבר) (born 4 November 1940) is a British-born Israeli academic and centrist orthodox rabbi.1 He is a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel , and an expert in classical philology , history of Jewish customs , Jewish art history, Jewish education, and Talmudic studies.
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professor of talmud at bar-ilan university in israel
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british-born israeli academic and orthodox jewish rabbi
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