Tamir Granot

Tamir Granot
Granot in Jerusalem
Personal life
Bornתמיר גרנות
1970 (age 55–56)
Ramat Gan, Israel
SpouseAvivit Ben-Yosef
Children1
EducationYeshivat Bnei Akiva Netiv Meir, Yeshivat Har Etzion, Herzog College, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
Jewish leader
PositionRosh Yeshiva (dean)
YeshivaOrot Shaul Hesder Yeshiva

Tamir Granot (Hebrew: תמיר גרנות; born 1970) is an Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and author and the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivat Orot Shaul, a hesder yeshiva in southern Tel Aviv.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Granot was born in Ramat Gan and grew up in Kiryat Motzkin.[4] For high school he attended Yeshivat Bnei Akiva Netiv Meir in Jerusalem.[4] Afterwards, he began studying at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shevut, where he was a student of Rabbi Yehuda Amital and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein.[4]

He completed his master's degree in Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in parallel to his Torah studies, as well as his doctorate, which dealt with the rise of Hasidism after the Holocaust, focusing on Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, the Rebbe of Sanz-Klausenburg.[5]

Career

In the late 1990s, Granot began teaching at Herzog College in Alon Shevut and at Lifshitz College of Education in Jerusalem. He has taught gemara and Jewish thought at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem and Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion.[6][7] In 2006 he established the "Beit Midrash for Army Veterans" in Katzrin together with Itamar Alder and Moshe Egozi and, alongside them, headed it for four years. In 2010 Granot founded the communal "Beit Midrash for Torah and Life" in Haspin, which he headed.[7]

In 2013, he became co-rosh yeshiva at the Orot Shaul Hesder Yeshiva.[8]

On March 12, 2024, he delivered a speech about the lack of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox contribution to the Israeli army, a historically controversial issue in Israeli society, "Regarding the Enlistment of Yeshiva Students" [9] During the Gaza war, there has been increased pressure for haredi participation in the army. Yitzhak Yosef, the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, wrote, "If [the government] forces us to go to the army, we’ll all move to chutz la'aretz (outside of Israel)".[10][11] Granot's son had been killed towards the beginning of the war,[2][3][12][13] and the call sought to bridge the gaps between communities, consistent with Granot's work to promote unity among the people of Israel.[14]

Personal life

He is married to Avivit Ben-Yosef, an Israeli educator and author.[14] His son, Amitai Granot, a platoon leader in the 75th Battalion of the IDF's 7th Armored Brigade was killed by a Hezbollah missile attack on an IDF post bordering Lebanon on October 15 during the 2023 Israel-Hezbollah conflict, following the October 7 Hamas-led attack and massacre.[2][3][12][14]

References

  1. ↑ "אודות הישיבה | ישיבת אורות שאול - ישיבת ההסדר מבית רוח הגולן". www.ypt.co.il. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Hope of Tamir Granot". Tradition Online. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  3. 1 2 3 "H'YD: Son Of Tel Aviv Rosh Yeshivah Murdered By Hezbollah". The Yeshiva World. 2023-10-16. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  4. 1 2 3 "הרב תמיר גרנות | תורת הר עציון". www.etzion.org.il. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  5. ↑ https://biu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay/alma990024571740205776/972BIU_INST:BIThe
  6. ↑ "The Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women of Yeshivat Har Etzion". www.skamigdaloz.org. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  7. 1 2 "Our Faculty". בית המדרש לנשים מגדל עוז. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  8. ↑ https://amitchildren.org/amit-orot-hesder-yeshiva-atkfar-batya/
  9. ↑ Granot, Tamir (12 March 2024), הרב תמיר גרנות על גיוס בני הישיבות - קריאה לראשון לציון הרב יצחק יוסף שליט"א, Yeshivat Orot Shaul, retrieved 18 March 2024
  10. ↑ "Chief Sephardic rabbi says ultra-Orthodox will leave Israel if forced into army". 10 March 2024.
  11. ↑ https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-871717
  12. 1 2 "Two Israelis murdered by Hezbollah anti-tank fire, IDF strikes in Lebanon". The Jerusalem Post. 2023-10-15. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  13. ↑ "הספדו של הרב תמיר לבנו אמתי צבי גרנות הי"ד". YouTube. 17 October 2023. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  14. 1 2 3 "Bereaved family welcomes new son". Israel National News Arutz 7. 29 January 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
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