Torah U'Maddah Exemplar

In a recent column in The Commentator entitled "The Farther You Are From YU The More Prestigious It Becomes," the writer notes that Rabbi Michael Hecht is "a supreme example of a successful merger of Torah U'Maddah." I simply wanted to write in to confirm the truth of that observation. In my years as a talmid in his shiur, a student in his constitutional law class, and finally as a (more) grown-up student with questions involving the merger of the two disciplines he so well mastered - I cannot express how amazed I am at the breadth and depth of the knowledge and wisdom Rabbi Hecht has. He is one of Yeshiva's most under-appreciated assets.

Michael Broyde
MTA '82, YC '84, RIETS '88