to the absolute truth." If applied, this approach would provide an alternative framework to the documentary hypothesis, which maintains that the Torah was written by multiple authors. In his two volume book Pirkei Moadot (1986), Breuer discusses twenty eight topics, mostly holidays like Shabbat, Pesach, Shavuot, and Hanukkah. The majority of the essays address the peshat or simple understanding of the Biblical text (written law) and attempt to clarify how it corresponds with the halakha or rabbinic law. A few of the essays address issues of oral law. For example, in one of his essays on Pesach, he discusses why and how the order of the Pesach Seder has changed since the destruction of the Temple. Originally, the korban Pesach was eaten after saying kiddush and drinking the first cup of wine. He explains how and why the Seder developed as presented in the Haggadah nowadays. In the introduction, he articulates his methodology for ascertaining the peshat of the Biblical text and demonstrates this method in several of the essays. He authored five other works: One on the Aleppo Codex, one on Taamei Hamikra, Pirkei Bereishit, Pirkei Mikraot, and Pirkei Yeshayahu. Breuer also translated Samson Raphael Hirsch's Commentary on the Pentateuch that was written in German into Hebrew together with his cousin Mordechai Breuer. Awards In 1984, Breuer was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought. In 1999, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Rabbinical literature - original Torah research. See also List of Israel Prize recipients List of Bialik Prize recipients References External links The Aleppo Codex Ephraim Chamiel, Between Religion and Reason - The Dialectical Position in Contemporary Jewish Thought, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2020, part I, pp.119-158. 1921 births 2007 deaths German Orthodox rabbis Israeli biblical scholars Israeli Orthodox rabbis Israel Prize in Rabbinical literature recipients Israel Prize Rabbi recipients Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine Bible commentators Yeshivat Har Etzion