About the book: 1990 / Professor and rabbi Eliezer Berkovich was born in 1908 in Romania. He graduated from the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminar in Germany and was awarded the title of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Berlin in 1933. From 1936 to 1939. Eliezer Berkovich was a rabbi in the Berlin Jewish community, and when World War II broke out, he escaped to England. From 1946 to 1950 he was a rabbi in Sydney (Australia), and then in Boston (USA). From 1958, for 18 years, Eliezer Berkovich headed the department of Jewish philosophy at the Biblical Seminar in Chicago. Professor Berkovich is one of the most prominent thinkers of our time in the field of Jewish philosophy, the author of many relevant works. His books on philosophy and theology are written in English. The main ones are “God, Man and History”, “Main Themes in Modern Philosophy of Judaism”. His books in the field of Halakha are “Conditions for Marriage and Divorce”, “The Power and Purpose of Halakha”, “The Doctrine of Causality in Halakha” - published in Jerusalem by the Rabbi Kook Institute. In 1975, Eliezer Berkovich immigrated to Israel. He lives in Jerusalem and continues his fruitful scientific, theoretical, literary and teaching activities..