Michael Abraham (rabbi)

Michael Abraham (also Michael Avraham) (Hebrew מיכאל אברהם; born January 15, 1960) is an Israeli rabbi at Bar-Ilan University's Machon HaGavoah LeTorah ("Institute of Advanced Torah Studies") and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics.

[1] Abraham was born in the city of Haifa, studied in a Midrashiat Noam yeshiva high-school and then at Yeshivat Har Etzion.

[1] Together with Gavriel Hazut, Avrham founded an organization called 'mida tova' focused on the use of formal logic and talmudical hermeneutics in the modern study of Torah and halakha (Jewish law).

[2] Abraham authored a series of popular books analyzing the relationship between Judaism and postmodernism as well as other issues at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and science.

Abraham is known as an independent thinker with unorthodox views on several controversial topics including his attitude towards religious dogma and the need to reform parts of Halakha.