1860 CE–1939 CE · Acharonim · New York
Rabbi Shimon Yehuda HaKohen Shkop (1860–1939) was one of the great Lithuanian Rosh Yeshivas and a major architect of the yeshivishe lomdus (analytical method) of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Torietz (Belarus) and educated at Volozhin under R. Chaim Soloveitchik (his uncle by marriage), he served as Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe (1885–1903) and then of Sha'ar HaTorah in Grodno (1920–1939).
His *Sha'arei Yosher* (Gates of Uprightness, 1925), an analytic monograph organized around the topics of chazakah, rov, and human autonomy in mitzvot, became one of the canonical Lithuanian-analytic texts. Its famous *introduction* — a meditation on the scope of the self and the obligation to expand the 'I' to include family, community, nation, and humanity — has become an independent classic of modern Jewish ethical thought. He died shortly before the Nazi destruction of Grodno.
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Born in Torez (today in Belarus) in 1860.
Grodno (Belarus) · 1925
1925 analytic monograph on chazakah, rov, and mitzvot. Its philosophical introduction on the expansion of the self is read as a Jewish ethics classic in its own right.
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Grodno (Belarus) · 1928
Collected Talmudic chiddushim on Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, Yevamot, Ketubot, and Kiddushin in the Telzer analytical mode.
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