Yehuda Leib Ginsburg was an Rabbi in Denver, Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

. He moved to Denver from Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 where he had been the town's Rabbi previously. He is most notable for his commentary on various parts of the Torah

Torah

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 and Rabbinic Writings which deal mostly with the ethical teachings found within them.

Ginsburg was an active member of the Vaad Hatzala Board of Directors

Works

In most of his works (especially Musar HaMishna and Musar HaNevim) Ginsburg tried to find ethical teachings within the legal framework of the Mishna or the text of the prophets. In Yalkut Yehuda, however, Ginsburg collects midrash

Midrash

The Hebrew term Midrash is a homiletic method of biblical exegesis. The term also refers to the whole compilation of homiletic teachings on the Bible....

im and presents a commentary on that midrash below.

• Yalkut Yehuda - Sefer Bereshit
• Yalkut Yehuda - Sefer Bereshit 2 Original version, published five years before the final. Different essays included in this volume
• Yalkut Yehuda - Sefer Shmot
• Yalkut Yehuda - Sefer Vayikra
• Yalkut Yehuda - Sefer Bamidbar
• Yalkut Yehuda - Sefer Devarim
• Musar HaMishna - Seder Zeraim
• Musar HaMishna - Seder Moed
• Musar HaMishna - Seder Nazikim
• Musar HaMishna - Seder Nashim
• Keter HaShabbat
• Musar HaNevim - First Prophets vol 1
• Musar HaNevim - First Prophets vol 2