Mayer E. Twersky (born October 17, 1960) is an
Orthodox rabbi and one of the
roshei yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (
RIETS) of
Yeshiva University. He holds the
Leib Merkin Distinguished Professorial Chair in Talmud and Jewish Philosophy.[1]
Twersky attended the
Maimonides School, which his grandfather founded,[2] through high school. He then attended
Harvard College, while studying Talmud privately with his grandfather. Following college, he studied for rabbinic ordination at
RIETS. He eventually became a teacher in the
Yeshiva University High School for Boys and later a lecturer in RIETS.
He has written articles in Hebrew for RIETS's annual Torah journal, and English articles in Tradition[3][4][5] and in the
Orthodox Union's magazine Jewish Action[6] on subjects introducing the place of women in contemporary Orthodox Judaism.[5][6]
As of 2011 Twersky was on the board of the website TorahWeb,[7] which frequently publishes his short English articles.[8]
The current shamash of the Rebbe is Daniel Goldstein. Goldstein spent two years studying in Yeshivat Sha'alvim before coming to Yeshiva University and serving as the Rebbe's shamash. Past shamashim include Yair Caplan, Jonah Steinmetz, Etan Schnall, Yitzi Genack, and Yosef Schwartz.[citation needed]