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Noson Ordman
Etz Chaim Yeshiva was a Yeshiva#Lithuanian, "Lithuanian" Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox ''yeshiva'', now advanced ''kollel'', in Golders Green, London, England. It operated as a yeshiva from the early 1900s through the 1990s, when it repositioned to function as the latter. It has several prominent alumni including Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, Commonwealth Chief Rabbis Baron Jakobovits, Immanuel Jakobovits and Jonathan Sacks. History The yeshiva was founded in about 1900 in London's East End, where it occupied a campus on Thrawl Street; :he:אהרן היימן, Rabbi Aharon Hyman was one of the founders. Rabbi Joseph Green (Rabbi), Joseph Green was the first Rosh Yeshiva, and Rabbi List of yeshivos in Europe (before World War II), Moshe Yitzchak Segal, later Rosh Yeshiva in Manchester, served as ''mashgiach ruchani''. During World War I, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was associated with the Yeshiva during Abraham Isaac Kook#London and World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism. Theologically, it is chiefly defined by regarding the Torah, both Torah, Written and Oral Torah, Oral, as literally revelation, revealed by God in Judaism, God on Mount Sinai (Bible), Mount Sinai and faithfully transmitted ever since. Orthodox Judaism therefore advocates a strict observance of Jewish Law, or ''halakha'', which is to be Posek, interpreted and determined only according to traditional methods and in adherence to the continuum of received precedent through the ages. It regards the entire ''halakhic'' system as ultimately grounded in immutable revelation, essentially beyond external and historical influence. More than any theoretical issue, obeying the Kosher, dietary, Tumah and taharah, purity, ethical and other laws of ''halakha'' is the hallmark of Orthodoxy. Practicing members are easily distinguishable by their lifestyle, refraining from doing 39 Melakhot, numerous rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bet Midrash
A ''beth midrash'' (, "house of learning"; : ''batei midrash''), also ''beis medrash'' or ''beit midrash'', is a hall dedicated for Torah study, often translated as a "study hall". It is distinct from a synagogue (''beth knesseth''), although the two are often coextensive. In Yiddish the ''beth midrash'' may be referred to as a ''zal'', i.e. "hall". ''Beis midrash'' can also refer to a yeshiva gedolah, the undergraduate-level program in Orthodoxy, for boys over 12th grade. The Arabic term "madrasah" is derived from the same Semitic root, and refers to any type of educational institution. The root דרש means "to seek nowledge and is then generalized to mean "expound". History Early rabbinic literature, including the Mishnah, makes mention of the ''beth midrash'' as an institution distinct from the '' beth din'' and Sanhedrin. It was meant as a place of Torah study and interpretation, as well as the development of ''halakha'' (the practical application of the Jewish Law). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebron Yeshiva
Hebron Yeshiva, also known as ''Yeshivas Hevron'', or Knesses Yisroel, is a yeshiva (school for Talmudic study). It originated in 1924 when the Rosh yeshiva, roshei yeshiva (deans) and 150 students of the Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka), Slabodka Yeshiva, known colloquially as the "mother of yeshivas", relocated to Hebron. Relocation of Slabodka Yeshiva to Israel A 1924 edict requiring enlistment in the military or supplementary secular studies in the yeshiva led a large number of students in the Slabodka yeshiva to relocate to the Land of Israel, at that time Mandatory Palestine, Palestine under the British mandate. Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka), Nosson Tzvi Finkel, also known as "Der Alter fun Slabodka" (''The Elder of Slabodka''), sent Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski to head this group and establish the yeshiva in Hebron. Upon Grodzinski's return to Slabodka, the Alter transferred the ''mashgiach ruchani'' responsibilities to him, and the ''rosh yeshiva'' duties to Rabbi Yi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Yeshiva (Jerusalem)
The Mir Yeshiva (, ''Yeshivat Mir''), known also as The Mir, is an Orthodox Jewish ''yeshiva'' in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem. With over 9,000 single and married students, it is the largest yeshiva in the world.Krausz, Yossi. "Our Boys in Israel". '' Ami'', October 23, 2013, pp. 44-53. Most students are from Israel and the United States, with many from other parts of the world such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Switzerland, Argentina, Australia, Russia, Canada and Panama. History The yeshiva was founded in the small town of Mir (now in Belarus) in 1814, 1815 or 1817 by Rabbi Shmuel Tiktinsky. After his death, his oldest son, Rabbi Avraham Tiktinsky, was appointed Rosh Yeshiva. After a number of years, Avraham died and his younger brother, Rabbi Chaim Leib Tiktinsky, succeeded him. Rabbi Chaim Leib would remain as Rosh Yeshiva for many decades. He was succeeded by his son, Rabbi Avrohom Tiktinsky, who brought Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai into the yeshiva. In 1903 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aharon Pfeuffer
Aharon Pfeuffer (, also "Pfoifer"; 1949–1993) was a Rabbi, Rosh Yeshiva and Posek, and a recognized authority on Kashrut. Biography Pfeuffer studied in various Yeshivot, primarily Hebron and HaNegev in Israel, as well as Lakewood in the US. He later studied in ''chavruta'' with Shmuel Rozovsky, famed ''Rosh Yeshiva'' (dean) of Ponevezh, and came to consider him his primary Rabbi. He received ''Semicha'', Rabbinic ordination, from Tzvi Kushelevsky. He was active in Israel, London, and then Johannesburg: He taught in yeshivot in Hadera and Kfar Haroeh; He co-headed the Etz Chaim Yeshiva (London) from 1976; He founded and headed the Yeshiva Maharsha Beis Aharon from 1982 (later named "Beis Aharon" for him), and lead the Yeshiva gedolah program at the Yeshiva College of South Africa in the early 1980s. He died in a car accident on his way to the Kruger National Park. Works Rabbi Pfeuffer is best known for his series on Kashrut, with volumes titled, e.g., "''Kitzur Shu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telz Yeshiva
Telshe Yeshiva (; ; also spelled ''Telz'') is a yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio, formerly located in Telšiai, Lithuania. During World War II the yeshiva relocated to Cleveland, Ohio in the United States and is now known as the Rabbinical College of Telshe, commonly referred to as ''Telz Yeshiva'', or ''Telz'' for short. In 1957, the yeshiva moved out of Cleveland proper to the Wickliffe suberb. It is a Haredi (ultra-orthodox) institution of Torah study, with additional branches in Chicago (which eventually became its own institution, no longer associated with the Cleveland Yeshiva) and in New York. It is the successor of the New Haven Yeshiva of Cleveland. History The yeshiva was founded in 1875 in the town of Telshi (, , ) in Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire. By 1900 it was "one of the three largest yeshivot in Imperial Russia." The yeshiva was established by three Orthodox rabbis and Talmudists: * Meir Atlas, later the rabbi of Shavli) and the father-in-law of Elch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žemaičių Naumiestis
Žemaičių Naumiestis (, ) is a town in Klaipėda county, Šilutė district municipality in western Lithuania, between Klaipėda and Kaliningrad Oblast. The rivers Šustis, Šelmuo and Lendra flow through it. For centuries, it was located at the border to Prussia, creating its distinctly multicultural population. Besides Lithuanian inhabitants, its Jewish and German populations—and to some degree Russian—have played significant roles in its history. As a result of the multi-layered events at the eve of World War II, over the course of the war and in the first decade after the war, this multi-cultural population structure was destroyed. It is reflected exclusively in the architectural heritage of Žemaičių Naumiestis. There is the wooden Catholic St. Michael Church (built in 1782), a Protestant church made of stone (built in 1842) and a stone synagogue (built in 1816). Name For a long time the town was called ''Naumiestis'' (Lithuanian) or ''Nowe Miasto'' (Polish). In Yiddi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noson Ordman
Etz Chaim Yeshiva was a Yeshiva#Lithuanian, "Lithuanian" Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox ''yeshiva'', now advanced ''kollel'', in Golders Green, London, England. It operated as a yeshiva from the early 1900s through the 1990s, when it repositioned to function as the latter. It has several prominent alumni including Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, Commonwealth Chief Rabbis Baron Jakobovits, Immanuel Jakobovits and Jonathan Sacks. History The yeshiva was founded in about 1900 in London's East End, where it occupied a campus on Thrawl Street; :he:אהרן היימן, Rabbi Aharon Hyman was one of the founders. Rabbi Joseph Green (Rabbi), Joseph Green was the first Rosh Yeshiva, and Rabbi List of yeshivos in Europe (before World War II), Moshe Yitzchak Segal, later Rosh Yeshiva in Manchester, served as ''mashgiach ruchani''. During World War I, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was associated with the Yeshiva during Abraham Isaac Kook#London and World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gateshead Talmudical College
Gateshead Talmudical College (), popularly known as Gateshead Yeshiva, is located in the Bensham area of Gateshead in North East England. It is the largest yeshiva in Europe and considered to be one of the most prestigious advanced yeshivas in the Orthodox world. The student body currently (as of 2019) numbers approx. 350. Although students are mainly British, there are European, American, Canadians as well as some from South America, Australia and South Africa. Most students are Litvish, but up to a third are Hasidic. History The yeshiva was founded in Gateshead in 1929 by Reb Dovid Dryan, with the Chofetz Chaim serving as an active patron and appointing the original head of the yeshiva. The first rosh yeshiva and ''menahel'' (principal) were respectively Rabbi Nachman Landinski and Rabbi Eliezer Kahan, both alumni of the Novardok yeshiva network and both of whom had escaped Communist Russia religious persecution by escaping across the border from Russia to Poland. Origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leib Gurwicz
Aryeh Ze'ev (Leib) Gurwicz (1906–20 October 1982) was an influential Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England, where he taught for over 30 years. He studied at various yeshivas in Lithuania and Poland before moving to England to get married in 1932. Early life and education He was born Aryeh Ze'ev Kushelevsky in the small town of Molėtai, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), where his father, Rabbi Moshe Aharon Kushelevsky served as rabbi. His mother was a direct descendant of the Vilna Gaon. His brother was Rabbi (1910–1992), who later served as '' av beis din'' (head of the rabbinical court) of Beersheba. At the age of thirteen he left home to learn in yeshiva. He sneaked across the border into Lithuania and went to learn at the Vilkomir yeshiva ketana, where he proved himself to be a diligent and capable student. After a year and a half in Vilkomir, he trav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elyah Lopian
Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian (; 1876 – 21 September 1970), known as Reb Elyah, was a rabbi of the Mussar Movement. Biography Lopian was born in Grajewo, Poland in 1876 and studied at the yeshiva in Łomża and at the Kelm Talmud Torah of Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv. He emigrated to England in 1928, where he was the rosh yeshiva of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in the East End of London, working for many years alongside Rabbi Nachman Shlomo Greenspan. His wife Soroh Leah Rotman died in 1934, shortly after the engagement of their daughter Lieba to Rabbi Leib Gurwicz. In 1950 he left the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and immigrated to Israel where he taught and was Mashgiach Ruchani at the Knesses Chizkiyahu yeshiva located in Zikhron Ya'akov (and later Kfar Hasidim). He died in Israel on 21 September 1970, and was buried in the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery. He had 13 children. After his death a street was named in his honor in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem. His work ''Lev Eliyah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
