Dovid Feinstein

Rabbi Dovid Feinstein (Hebrew: דוד פיינשטיין‎; born 1929 in Lyuban, USSR) is a Torah scholar and halachic authority, considered by many as the leading halachic authority in the United States. He serves as the rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem yeshiva elementary and high school and kollel, inheriting the position after the passing of his father Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in 1986. He is also a prolific and erudite author, penning at least 9 books on such topics as halacha, Torah and the Jewish calendar, as well as some very popular Passover Haggadahs.

Rabbi

Dovid Feinstein
Personal
Born1929
Lyuban, Second Polish Republic (currently Belarus)
ReligionJudaism
Parents
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
Jewish leader
PredecessorRabbi Moshe Feinstein
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaMesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem
Began1986-
Main workKol Dodi
OtherMoetzes Gedolei Hatorah
Artscroll Board of Trustees
ResidenceLower East Side, New York, NY

His is the first name in the Mesorah Heritage Foundation box of the inner cover in Artscroll publications.

His brother, Rabbi Reuven Feinstein, is rosh yeshiva of the Staten Island branch of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem.

Kol Dodi

The title Kol Dodi (Hebrew: קול דודי‎) originated in the 1970s, when Rabbi Feinstein's father was still alive, and Rabbi Feinstein would not allow his own name on the cover.[1][2][3][4] Hence:

  • Kol Dodi - the first three letters of Dodi (Hebrew: דודי‎) spell the name Dovid (Hebrew: דוד‎);
  • the cover uses David rather than Dovid.

Dodi means "My Beloved", and can be a reference to God.

Stone Chumash Masoretic notes

Within ArtScroll's Stone Chumash, at the end of each Parsha there is an explanation, authored by him, of that Parsha's Masoretic note.[5]

gollark: We do at least have script dragons.
gollark: Not currently, though I do have an egg I don't need much.
gollark: For he shall give us dragons and stuff on relatively standardised cycles.
gollark: Hail TJ***OVERLORD***9!
gollark: I would consider them an annoying caveblocker, but people pick them up for some reason.

References
  1. Kol Dodi - Seasonings of the Torah.
  2. Kol Dodi on Megillas Ruth.
  3. "Kol Dodi on the Torah".
  4. Kol Dodi Torah Comments Insights.
  5. The Stone Edition - חמשה חומשי תורה. p. 289. ... , R'David Feinstein, who interprets these Masoretic notes, ...



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