How Rabbi Zevin Still Writes – Forty Years Later

The Method Behind a Voice That Transcends Time

Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin passed away in 1978. And yet, nearly half a century later, he continues to speak.

Not through prophecy. Not through ghostwriting.

But through ideas.

In this series, authored and edited by Rabbi Chanan Zevin, we present a new weekly essay - an intellectual response to the world's most urgent developments -filtered through Rabbi Zevin's mind and methodology.

How is this achievable?

We are not guessing what Rabbi Zevin would have said -we are drawing from what he said.

Rabbi Zevin left behind a legacy of writing that is uniquely timeless: essays, books, and reflections that combine halachic sharpness with historical awareness and literary grace with prophetic clarity.

We have studied his writing closely.

From that study, Rabbi Chanan Zevin distilled a set of principles from his intellectual method - a methodology that can be applied even today to headlines he never saw but to dilemmas he understood better than most.

His method includes:

• Starting with the human question, not just the legal one.
• Situating modern dilemmas in historical and Jewish contexts.
• Engaging the soul of an issue, not just its facts.
• Speaking with elegance, precision, and moral clarity.

This is how Rabbi Zevin wrote — and Rabbi Chanan Zevin continues writing in his voice.

Each essay in this series takes a current event — drawn from leading global sources such as:

• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• The Wall Street Journal
• Financial Times
• and more
• And reexamine it through Torah's timeless lens, as seen through Rabbi Zevin's method and moral clarity.

These are not divrei Torah with a headline tacked on.

They are rigorous, relevant, and reflective.

We offer vision in a world overrun with information, opinion, and analysis.