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Slabodka Yeshiva (Bnei Brak)
Slabodka Yeshiva is a branch of the Hebron Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, founded by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher. A yeshiva (; he, ישיבה, lit. "sitting"; pl. , ''yeshivot'' or ''yeshivos'') is a Jewish institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and Torah study. Study is usually done through daily ''shiurim'' (lectures or classes) and in study pairs called '' ḥavrutas'' (Aramaic for "friendship" or "companionship"). The yeshiva has approximately 500 students; despite the Lithuanian affiliation of the yeshiva, many of the students are chassidic. Additionally, there are quite a few ultra-conservative followers of the Chazon Ish. Leadership Rabbi Sher was succeeded by his son-in-law, Rabbi Mordechai Shulman who is in turn succeeded by his son-in-law, Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch.''Hamodia''. Dec/5/12. p. D40. Notable alumni * Yehuda Amit * Elimelech Biderman * Yisroel Zvi Yoir Danziger of Aleksander *Moshe Gafni *Avrohom Genach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehuda Amit
Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to: Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms * Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Judaea * Judea, the name of part of the Land of Israel ** Kingdom of Judah, an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant *** History of ancient Israel and Judah ** Yehud (Persian province), a name introduced in the Babylonian period ** Judaea (Roman province) People * Judah (given name), or Yehudah, including a list of people with the name * Judah (surname) Other uses * Judah, Indiana, a small town in the United States * N Judah, a light trail line in San Francisco, U.S. * Yehuda Matzos, an Israeli matzo company See also * Juda (other) * Judas (other) * Jude (other) * Jews, an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah * Judas Iscariot Judas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slabodka Yeshiva
Slabodka yeshiva may refer to: * Hebron Yeshiva, a branch of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Hebron, relocated afterward to Jerusalem * Slabodka yeshiva (Bnei Brak), a branch of the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak * Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael was a yeshiva located in the town of Sloboda Vilyampolskaya in Kovno Governorate of Russian Empire (now Vilijampolė in Kaunas, Lithuania). It was known colloquially as the "mother of yeshivas" and was devoted to high-l ..., the original Slabodka yeshiva, located in Slabodka (Vilijampolė), Lithuania {{Disambiguation ru:Иешива «Слободка» yi:סלאבאדקער ישיבה ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov Lando
Dov Lando (born 5 April 1930) is the ''rosh yeshiva'' of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak along with Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, a rabbi of Chug Chazon Ish, and a member of the directorate of the Board of Yeshivas. In his youth, he studied under Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz as well as at the yeshivot of Ponevezh and Hebron. Works * Zecher Davar * Zecher Tov * Minchat Davar, regarding the Minchat Chinuch * Collection of lessons (with the other heads of the Slabodka Yeshiva) * Pamphlets on new interpretations regarding all Shas tractates Students * Avraham Gnichowski, Rosh Yeshiva of the Tchebein Yeshiva * Michal Zilber, Rosh Yeshiva of the Zhvil Yeshiva * Zvi Meir Silberberg, a Hasidic influencer * Yehuda Silman * Shaul Alter, Rosh Yeshiva of the Ger Yeshiva * Moshe Yehuda Schlesinger, Rosh Yeshiva of the Kol Torah Kol Torah is a yeshiva in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem. History Yeshivas Kol Torah was founded in 1939 by Yechiel Michel Schlesinger (1898 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzchok Zilberstein
Yitzchok Zilberstein ( he, יצחק זילברשטיין, also spelled Silberstein) (born 1934) is a prominent Orthodox rabbi, posek (Jewish legal authority) and expert in medical ethics. He is the ''av beis din'' of the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood of Bnei Brak, the Rosh Kollel of Kollel Bais David in Holon, and the Rav of Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak. His opinion is frequently sought and quoted on all matters of halakha for the Israeli Lithuanian yeshiva community. Biography Zilberstein was born in Bendin, Poland to Rabbi Dovid Yosef and Rachel Zilberstein. The family emigrated to Palestine while he was a young boy, and he studied in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem under Rabbi Aryeh Levin. In his teen years Zilberstein studied in the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak, where he became a student of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky, who gave him rabbinic ordination. He married Aliza Shoshana Eliashiv (1936–1999), a daughter of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv and grandd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amram Zaks
Rabbi Amram Yitzchak''Hamodia''. Dec 5, 2012. p. 1; Zaks (1926—2012) served as the ''rosh yeshiva'' of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak, Israel alongside Rabbis Dov Landau and Moshe Hillel Hirsch.''Hamodia''. Dec 5, 2012. p. D40. Biography Rabbi Zaks was born on October 30, 1926, in Jerusalem to Rabbi Chaim Eliyahu Zalman and Esther Leah Zaks. His mother was the daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Friedman and the sister of Rabbi Mendel Friedman, son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld. Rabbi Zaks was a student of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer in Etz Chaim Yeshiva. In 1947, he traveled to Bnei Brak where he studied at the Slabodka yeshiva under Rabbi Isaac Sher. In 1952 he was engaged to be married with Rabbi Sher's eldest granddaughter, the daughter of his son-in-law, Rabbi Mordechai Shulman, ''rosh yeshiva'' of Slabodka. The wedding took place in March 1952, shortly after the death of Rabbi Sher (who died in February 1952). Several years after his marriage, his father-in-law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meir Porush
Meir Porush ( he, מֵאִיר פֹּרוּשׁ, born 11 June 1955) is an Israeli politician who has served as a member of the Knesset for the Haredi Agudat Yisrael faction of United Torah Judaism in several spells since 1996. He served as the Deputy Minister of Education. Biography Meir Porush was born in Jerusalem. His father Rabbi Menachem Porush (1916–2010) was one of the longest-serving Knesset members. Meir was educated in a yeshiva. After leaving yeshiva, he served in the IDF, and supports further Haredi participation in military service. Porush lives in Jerusalem with his wife and twelve children. Political career Before entering the Knesset, Porush was as a member of the Jerusalem City Council for thirteen years. He also served as deputy mayor of Jerusalem. He ran unsuccessfully in the 1983 Jerusalem mayoral election as the Agudat Yisrael nominee. He ran for the mayoralty again in 1989, but was again unsuccessful. He was first elected to the Knesset in the 1996 el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Landau (journalist)
David Landau OBE (22 June 1947 – 27 January 2015) was a British/Israeli journalist and newspaper editor. Landau was editor-in-chief of the Israeli newspaper ''Haaretz'' from 2004 to 2008. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the paper's English edition from 1997 to 2004. Before joining Haaretz in 1997, Landau was the diplomatic correspondent of ''The Jerusalem Post'' for 12 years, and its managing editor for four years. After leaving ''Haaretz'' Landau became the Israel correspondent for ''The Economist''. Biography Maurice David Landau grew up in the Golders Green neighborhood of London. In the early 1960s, he studied at the Haredi Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak. During the Six-Day War, he was an overseas student at the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem. In 1970, after completing a degree in law at University College London, he settled permanently in Jerusalem. Landau, an Orthodox Jew, was married to Jackie, a rehabilitation teacher of visually impaired children. They had three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaim Kamil
Chaim Kamil (1933–2005) was a rabbi and the rosh yeshiva (dean) of the yeshiva of Ofakim, Israel. He was a student of Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz. Kamil also delivered weekly Talmudic lectures in the yeshiva at Tifrach Tifrah ( he, תִּפְרַח, ''lit.'' heshall blossom) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev to the west of Eshel HaNasi with an area of 5,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional ..., Israel. Many of Kamil's Musar-oriented lectures have been published under the name "Imrei Chaim". Sources obituary of Kamil {{DEFAULTSORT:Kamil, Chaim 1933 births 2005 deaths Haredi rabbis in Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzchak Dovid Grossman
Yitzchak Dovid Grossman ( he, יצחק דוד גרוסמן) (born 15 September 1946 in Jerusalem), also known as the "Disco Rabbi", is the Chief Rabbi of Migdal HaEmek, founder and dean of Migdal Ohr educational institutions, and a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council of Israel. He is known for his work with children from disadvantaged and troubled homes, having rehabilitated tens of thousands of youth through his educational network founded in 1972. Biography Grossman is a sixth-generation Jerusalemite and the scion of a prominent Hasidic family. His father, Rabbi Yisrael Grossman, served as rosh yeshiva of Pinsk-Karlin and of Chabad in Lod, and was a member of the rabbinical court of Agudat Yisrael. His mother, Perl (1923–2012), was the daughter of Rabbi Yosef Gutfarb, a teacher at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in the Old City of Jerusalem. He is one of six brothers and four sisters. He grew up in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem and attended Yeshivas Karlin. An alum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avrohom Genachowsky
Avrohom Genachowsky (also spelled Avraham Genechovsky or Genichovsky; September 1936 – October 11, 2012), was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and talmudic scholar. He served as dean ("rosh yeshiva") at in Jerusalem. Biography He was born in Tel Aviv on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, 1936, to Rabbi Eliyahu Moshe and Gitta. Eliyahu Moshe studied at the Lomza Yeshiva where he was a ''chavrusa'' with Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and later served as one of the early religious members of the Knesset for HaPoel HaMizrahi. When Eliyahu Moshe published the Talmud, Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz gave him permission to include his commentaries on the condition that they would be organized by Avrohom, who was 17 at the time. Avrohom studied for a short time in Ponevezh Yeshiva, and afterwards in Slabodka Yeshiva. He was fluent in the areas of Choshen Mishpat and Even Ha'ezer. At his father's request, he took the Chief Rabbinate of Israel's test on Choshen Mishpat and earned a mark of 100. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
