Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson
Sacks Scholar
Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson is Associate Professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University. Previously she served as Associate Professor of Law at Reichman University and as Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She specialises in rabbinic law, the relationship between law and religion, and the history of Jewish law.
Dr. Hoffmann Libson received a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA and PhD in Talmud from New York University. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the 2023 Fattal Prize for excellence in legal research. She is the author of Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and is currently completing her second book, On the Threshold, a collection of essays on the central themes of each tractate of the Babylonian Talmud. She is a graduate of the Matan Advanced Talmud Institute and the halacha programmes at Beit Morashah and Migdal Oz, and is a member of the Beit Hillel rabbinic organisation.