Dr. Rabin Shushtri

Dr. Rabin Shushtri holds a bachelor’s degree in Humanities and Social Science from The Open University of Israel, and was awarded a master’s degree and Ph.D from the Talmud Department of Bar Ilan University. His thesis was titled 'The Textual Tradition of Tractate Sukkah in the Babylonian Talmud', and his doctoral advisor was Professor Mordechai Sabato.
The central themes of Dr. Shushtri's work are textual tradition and editing of Talmudic literature and critical research of the Babylonian Talmud. Since 2008 Dr. Shushtri has been a professor at Bar Ilan University where he teaches the fundamentals Judaism. His course encompasses the Jewish laws of marriage and divorce, solutions to the abuse of divorce in Jewish law (Agunot), Jewish medical ethics, and the place of Jewish tradition in Israeli society.  In addition, he teaches a course in the stories and parables of the Talmud.
Dr. Shushtri also holds rabbinic ordination from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and has been teaching at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa since 2006.