by
Moshe David Kuhr, MD
Rabbi Yehudah Loewe [1512-1607], known as Maharal of Prague, is
credited with the creation of the Golem, but more importantly, served
as the rabbinic leader to European Judaism during the 16th century.
Much of his voluminous work has not been translated and therefore
is not accessible to the English reading public.
The Maharal's supra-commentary on Rashi, the major commentator on
the Torah, is integrated into the text and care is taken, despite
stylistic modifications, to limit the text to thoughts of the Maharal.
Gur Arye is full of surprises, brimming with unique thoughts and
diversions into rarely discussed Torah ideas. Kabbala is seamlessly
woven into his text, and his work delves into such issues as What
was God Thinking at the Moment of Creation, The Genesis of Evil,
The Secret of Burial, The Navel of the Earth, and Man at the Catalyst
of Harmony in the Universe.
Moshe David Kuhr was born
and raised in Dayton, Ohio, and attended the Talmudical Academy
in Baltimore. He received his medical degree from the University
of Chicago and trained in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Kuhr has lived and practiced pediatrics in Monsey, NY, for
the last thirty years. He holds a pediatric teaching appointment
at Columbia.
Dr. Kuhr and his wife Phyllis have four sons and six grandchildren.
He counts among his Torah mentors Rabbis Boruch Milikovsky, z"l,
Moshe David Tendler, Berel Wein, Avraham Pessin, z"l, Yehoshua
David Hartman and scores of chavrutot [study partners] and students
who have helped sharpen his skills, preparing him to make accessible
the works of the Maharal of Prague.
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