Rabbi Nachman Kahane (רב נחמן בן רב יחזקאל שרגא כהנא) was born in 1937 and raised in Brooklyn, New York where he attended a branch of the illustrious Novardok Yeshiva, which awarded him rabbinic ordination. His father was a well esteemed Talmudic scholar named Rabbi Yechezkel (Charles) Shraga Kahane, and his brother was Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense Leagueand Kach. For a period of time he toiled as a civil servant of Israel’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and has also led the Birkat Kohanim Institute, which has attempted to establish a database of reliable Kohanim in Israel. He is currently the spiritual leader of Hazon Yichezkeil a member synagogue of Young Israel (Yisrael Hatzair) in the Old City of Jerusalem. Additionally he has founded the Institute for Talmudic Commentaries (המכון להסברת מפרשי התלמוד) through which he has published “Mei Menuchot” (מי מנוחות - Restful Waters) a Hebrew elucidation of the Tosafot commentary on several tractates of the Talmud. He has also been cited as collaborating on the recent and controversial attempts to resurrect the ancient Sanhedrin in the capacity of Av Beit Din (אב בית דין - Father of the Court House), which is the second in command to the Rosh HaYeshiva / Nasi (נשיא/ראש הישיבה - Head of the Yeshiva/Prince).

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