The Essence Of The Kitzur Shulhan Arukh

Rabbi Hyman E. Goldin, LL.B. (March 15, 1881, near Vilna – 1972) was a Lithanian-American Orthodox Rabbi, attorney, and Judaic scholar. A prolific author of English Jewish literature, he wrote over fifty works.

Hyman Elias Goldin studied at the Yeshiva of Vilna, where he was ordained a rabbi. According to a possibly-apocryphal story, Goldin was dismissed from the Yeshiva for studying the writings of Charles Darwin at a time when Orthodox Jews considered evolution a to be heresy. He emigrated from the Eishyshok shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1900 and settled in Brooklyn.

Goldin purchased 360 acres of land in the Adirondack Mountains and established children's summer camps and the Blue Sky Lodge Hotel, which become a meeting ground for modern Orthodox thinkers.