# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aryeh-kaplan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:09:37.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aryeh-kaplan"
name: "Aryeh Kaplan"
slug: "aryeh-kaplan"
description: "Aryeh Moshe Eliyahu (Leonard) Kaplan was an American Orthodox rabbi, author, and translator best known for his Living Torah edition of the Torah and extensive Kabbalistic commentaries. He became well known as a prolific writer and was lauded as an original thinker. His wide-ranging literary output, inclusive of introductory pamphlets on Jewish beliefs, and philosophy written at the request of NCSY are often regarded as significant factors in the growth of the baal teshuva movement."
tagline: "American rabbi and physicist (1934–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aryeh_Kaplan_Potrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-10-23"
deathDate: "1983-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7588532883642496
  historical:           8.335570666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump