Rabbi Dr. Daniel Sperber, posek emeritus, served as the Posek HaYeshiva Maharat for 16 years, and he facilitated semikha exams for its musmakhot. He is the Milan Roven Professor of Talmudic Studies (emeritus) and former Dean of Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University. Rabbi Sperber held the office of President of the Ludwig and Erica Jesselson Institute of Advanced Torah Studies at Bar Ilan University. He is widely known as an expert in classical philology, history of Jewish customs, Jewish art history, Jewish education, and Talmudic studies. In 1992, Professor Sperber was awarded the distinguished Israel Prize in Jewish Studies.