Menachem Leibtag

Menachem Leibtag (Hebrew: מנחם ליבטאג; b. 1954) is an American–Israeli Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist rabbi, Tanach scholar and pioneer of Jewish Education on the internet. He is a leader of the "תנ"ך בגובה העיניים" ("Tanach at Eye Level") methodology and has taught several generations of Tanach scholars. He is the founder of Tanach.org and teaches at various institutions, including Yeshivat Har Etzion where he previously served as the Director of the overseas program.

Biography Leibtag was born in 1954 in Akron, Ohio, the son of Rabbi Avraham Leibtag. Leibtag moved to Israel following high school, where he attended the Jerusalem College of Technology, and then began learning at Yeshivat Har Etzion in 1977 after visiting a friend who was learning there. Leibtag was a member of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein's kollel gavoha and received his semicha from Rabbi Yehuda Amital.

Leibtag is a pioneer of Jewish Education via the Internet. He was instrumental in creating Yeshivat Har Etzion's Virtual Beit Midrash (VBM) and founded Tanach.org, also known as the Tanach Study Center (TSC). He is an exemplar of the "Tanach at Eye Level" methodology, his style and methodology of Tanach learning constitutes thematic-analytical approach which blends the methods of modern academic scholarship, including literary criticism and archeology, with traditional Jewish approaches. He has served as a mentor and influence for many Tanach educators in North America and Israel, especially in the Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist communities.

Leibtag teaches at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shevut, where he currently resides and has taught at various institutions, including Matan Women's Institute for Torah Studies, and Yeshiva University's Gruss Kollel in Jerusalem.

Personal Leibtag resides in Alon Shevut, where Yeshivat Har Etzion is located.