Rab­bi Adin Stein­saltz, hailed by Time as a ​“once-in-a-mil­len­ni­um schol­ar,” was inter­na­tion­al­ly regard­ed as a lead­ing schol­ar and rab­bi. He found­ed the Israel Insti­tute for Tal­mu­dic Pub­li­ca­tions, and wrote many books on sub­jects includ­ing the Tal­mud, Jew­ish mys­ti­cism, reli­gious thought, soci­ol­o­gy, his­tor­i­cal biog­ra­phy, and phi­los­o­phy. His pub­lished works have been trans­lat­ed into Russ­ian, Eng­lish, French, Por­tuguese, Swedish, Japan­ese, and Dutch. He lived in Jerusalem.