Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, Torah scholar, longtime educator, prolific author and one of the greatest commentators on Judaism of his generation, died Aug. 7 in Jerusalem. He was 83.
The Jerusalem Post reported the cause of death was acute pneumonia; he had been hospitalized since Aug. 4 because of a lung infection.
Steinsaltz, perhaps best known for his groundbreaking commentary of the Babylonian Talmud, which is credited with making the ancient Jewish texts more accessible, was buried on Har Hazeitim (the Mount of Olives) while hundreds of family members, colleagues and students stood in the heat while singing Chassidic nigunim after the burial.
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