Dr. Samuel Belikin
President, Yeshiva University (YU)
developed YU’s iconic philosophy of ‘synthesis’ –
Torah u’Madah
Torah – and human knowledge –
Belikn’s four dimensions thereof-
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
Man himself
Spiritual Purposes of life
were layered-across YU
Birnbaum’s* Summa Metaphysica series
is aligned with Belkin’s
philosophy, dream and achievement
*As editor-in-chief of the high school yearbook – The Elchanite – published June 1968
Birnbaum interacted-with – and sparred-with – the great Belkin a”h