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Volume 49 Number 1
CHAVRUSA
A PUBLI CATI ON OF THE RABBI NI C ALUMNI OF THE RABBI I SAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGI CAL SEMI NARY AN AFFI LI ATE OF YESHI VA UNI VERSI TY
Preparing for Shemittah:
An Interview with Rabbi
Shalom Rosner
Page 15
Remembering
Rabbi Gershon
Yankelewitz ztl
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Page 19 Divrei Hesped
In Appreciation of HaGaon Rav Gershon Yankelewitz ztl
Rabbi Elchanan adler 90R
Page 3 In Pictures
Mediation Training for Rabbis, Shavuos with Yeshiva,
June Zman Siyum, RIETS Kennes Petichah
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Teological Seminary
Richard M. Joel
PRESI dENT, RI ETS
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm
RoSh haYEShI Va EMERI TuS, RI ETS
Joel M. Schrieber
ChaI RMaN of ThE BoaRd of TRuSTEES, RI ETS
Rabbi Menachem Penner
Max aNd MaRI oN GRI LL dEaN,
RI ETS aNd uNdERGRaduaTE ToRah STudI ES
Rabbi Kenneth Brander
VI CE PRESI dENT foR uNI VERSI T Y aNd CoMMuNI T Y LI fE
Rabbi Zevulun Charlop
dEaN EMERI TuS, RI ETS
SPECI aL adVI SoR To ThE PRESI dENT oN YEShI Va affaI RS
Rabbi Robert S. Hirt
VI CE PRESI dENT EMERI TuS, RI ETS
Rabbi Yaakov Glasser
daVI d MI TZNER dEaN, CENTER foR ThE J EwI Sh fuTuRE
aNd uNI VERSI T Y LI fE
Rabbi Chaim Bronstein
adMI NI STRaToR, RI ETS
Rabbi Adam Berner Rabbi Binyamin Blau
Rabbi Kenneth Hain Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Rabbi Moshe Neiss Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Rybak
Rabbi Shmuel Silber Rabbi Perry Tirschwell
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Page 4 News
Remembering Rabbi Yankelewitz ztl, Rabbi Moshe
d. Tendler 48R Receives honorary degree from Bar
Ilan, Bringing Torah to the Masses, Mussar Initiative at
Yeshiva, Rabbi Lau at Yu, Confict Resolution workshop
for Rabbis, and Rabbi Mostofsky 03R Joins CRC
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Page 23 Recently Published Books
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Page 10 Divrei Chizuk
Recognizing our Kochos
Rabbi Moshe weinberger 83R
Page 13 Divrei Chizuk
Transforming our Communities
Rabbi Yaakov Glasser 01R
Page 15 Special Feature
Preparing for Shemittah
an Interview with Rabbi Shalom Rosner 97R
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Shavuot with Yeshiva RIETS annual Yarchei Kallah
June 3-5, 2014
Mediation Training for Rabbis
May 19-21, 2014
June Zman Siyum on Masechet Shabbat
June 11, 2014
In Pictures
RIETS Kennes Petichah
august 25, 2014
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Remembering Rosh Yeshiva
Rabbi Gershon Yankelewitz ztl
Te Yeshiva is saddened by the loss of Rabbi Gershon Yankelewitz ztl, who passed away on
August 19. Rabbi Yankelewitz taught a daily Gemara shiur at the advanced age of 104.
Rabbi Yankelewitz by his nature and learning so represented both our history and our
destiny, said RIETS President Richard M. Joel. For over half a century he taught his students
how to learn and how to live. We will always remember him.
Born in Lubcza, Poland in 1909, Rabbi Yankelewitz studied in the Radin Yeshiva until the
death of its founder, the Chofetz Chaim. Rabbi Yankelewitz then continued his studies at the
legendary Mir Yeshiva in Russia, before being forced to fee from the Nazis at the start of World
War II. Te entire yeshiva relocated to Kobe, Japan before eventually setling in Shanghai,
China, where they remained until 1947. Rabbi Yankelewitz joined Yeshiva University in 1958
and gave a daily shiur at RIETS for semicha and college students for more than fve decades.
Rabbi Yankelewitz was an extraordinary person, said Rabbi Zevulun Charlop 54R, Dean Emeritus of RIETS. He was a man of God
and a man of principle, who brought with him the Torah learning from the great European yeshivas. His students were devoted to him and
he was dedicated to them.
As someone who was fortunate enough to be a talmid in his shiur, I saw what type of tzadik he was up close, said Rabbi Chaim
Bronstein 72R, RIETS administrator. It was a great privilege to have known him all these years.
It is so far beyond impossible to capture who the nifar was, not just because of the longevity of the nifar or the many worlds that he
lived in, but simply because of who he was, said Rabbi Menachem Penner 95R, Max and Marion Grill Dean of RIETS, addressing a crowd
of hundreds at the August 20 levaya held in Yeshiva Universitys Glueck Beit Midrash. Its easy to focus today on the arichas yamim of the
nifar, to say that what was so special about him was that he had such unbelievable arichas yamim and was still teaching at Yeshiva. But the
hespedim give us a sense of not just how many years he was blessed to teach, but mostly just how he taught and learned.
Rabbi Yankelewitzs wife, Bluma, passed away in 2010. He is survived by his sons, all of whom serve the Jewish community: Dovid,
Yaakov, Yoel and Moshe; and his daughters, Devorah Fromowitz, Gity Lipsius and Perl Gross, and their spouses and many grandchildren
and great-grandchildren. n
Rabbi Tendler Receives honorary
degree from Bar-Ilan
Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe David Tendler 48R, the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler
Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and professor of biology at Yeshiva College, received
an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University at its 59th annual meeting of the Board of
Trustees.
Rabbi Tendler also headlined the 41st Nitzotzot Conference of Bar-Ilans Ludwig and
Erica Jesselson Institute for Advanced Torah Studies on Sunday, May 18, with a discourse
on Value Judgments in Bioethics: Halachic and General, a summary of his lifes work.
Te Nitzotzot Conference explores the ways in which Jewish law afect bioethics, and
the halachic questions that emerge from practicing medicine in Israel.
A world-renowned posek and scholar, Rabbi Tendler was ordained at RIETS in 1948,
and earned a PhD in biology from Columbia University in 1957. Rabbi Tendler has writen and lectured widely on medical ethics
and is known as an expert on the relationship between Jewish medical ethics and halacha. n
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Bringing Torah to The Masses
from Tape Cassettes to Mobile apps: how YuTorah Grew into the Leading
Site for online Torah Study
It started with one semicha student.
While studying at RIETS, Rabbi Marc
Spivak 98R was training for a career as a
pulpit rabbi outside the tristate areabut
he didnt want to miss out on the advanced
learning and shiurim he loved at Yeshiva.
He began taping shiur afer shiur, building
a collection of Torah lectures hed be able
to listen to anywhere, anytime. When his
apartment could no longer hold the sheer
volume of tapes hed created, he tried
digital storage, learning how to encode
the shiurim and burn them to CDs.
Eventually, with help from fellow student
Chaim Jaskoll and others still exploring the
Internets fedgling potential, Rabbi Spivak
turned to the emerging world of online
media, uploading all the shiurim he had
recorded to a single website where they
would remain accessible, for free, to any
Jew, anywhere in the world, who wanted to
broaden their Torah horizons.
Tat turned out to be just the
beginning. Te site was an instant
hit. Rabbi Spivak joined what would
eventually become known as YUs Center
for the Jewish Future to embark on an even
more ambitious project: recording and
uploading shiurim Yeshiva-wide. Excited
donors contributed recording equipment
and initial server space, while students and
faculty added a growing number of shiurim
to the site daily. Before long, the site had
expanded beyond YUs borders, receiving
submissions and listenership from Torah
fgures and institutions around the world.
Today, that website is known
as YUTorah, and with over 90,000
shiurimand countingis the leading
site for online Torah study. In 2014 alone,
YUTorah received more than four million
page-views from 185 countries worldwide
and thousands of downloads of its mobile
apps for Android and iPhone.
Its grown exponentially, said Rabbi
Robert Shur 05R, director of YUTorah.
We started out limited to just shiurim
that were happening at YU and RIETS,
just to give people access to the rabbeim
they had learned from as students. Ten
we made a decision to expand it to become
more of a forum for the Torah happening
throughout Yeshiva University and the YU
community, a one-stop shop for high-
quality Torah content from a whole range
of speakers and topics. Today, all kinds
of Jews from nearly every country on the
planet come to YUTorah to learnyou
dont get a broader audience than that.
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz 06R, host of
the sites extremely popular Ten Minute
Halacha series as well as a Daf Yomi
series, can atest to that. Te most eye-
opening thing for me has been YUTorahs
incredible reach, he said. Teres the
listener from Phoenix, AZ, who sends
fresh-picked oranges to Lebowitzs shul
in North Woodmere, NY, to help him get
through the cold Northeastern winter. Or
the Hollywood director who requested a
10-minute halacha shiur on what can and
cant be flmed according to Jewish law. Or
the Reconstructionist rabbi who reached
out to Lebowitz afer Hurricane Sandy to
ask how his congregation was doing. Or
Rabbi Greg Wall, of Westport, CT.
As a returnee to active Judaism as an
adult, it became painfully obvious that my
lack of a traditional yeshiva education was
keeping me from geting the most out of
my Jewish observance, said Rabbi Wall.
He atended local classes and lectures
and began studying for semicha, but
felt something was missinguntil he
stumbled upon the website. YUTorah
provided the opportunity to get a
complete overview of the masechtot I was
learning, as well as go into greater depth
than I would have been otherwise able.
It gave me the next best thing to a YU
education.
Tese are the sort of stories Rabbi
Lebowitz hears wherever he travels,
everywhere from London to Palo Alto,
CA. Rabbi Lebowitz uses the site himself
in his own research and preparation for
his own lectures. Tere is literally no
The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah.org Today
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topic that isnt accounted for, generally
in a very professional and thorough way,
on YUTorah, he said. It is the gold
standard of Torah on the Internet.
Dr. David Arbesfeld got involved
with YUTorah more than 10 years
ago at the SOY Seforim Sale when
he discovered Rabbi Spivaks CDs of
lectures by Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Hershel
Schachter 67R, Marcos and Adina Katz
Rosh Kollel and Nathan and Vivian
Fink Distinguished Professorial Chair
in Talmud. Afer learning about the
project, Dr. Arbesfeld was eager to help
out, ofering to donate all the recording
equipment that was needed. Its a big
mitzvah to be marbitz Torah brabim, and
if theres something you can do to make it
so people wont have to pay, many more
will be able to listen, said Dr. Arbesfeld.
YU has such great Roshei Yeshiva and
shiurim to ofersome of the lectures
weve put up have goten over 2,000 hits.
For me personally, I love being able to
listen to lectures from someone like Rav
Schachter anytime, anywhere, no mater
where he is in the world.
For Rabbi Gil Student 94YC,
publisher and editor-in-chief of
TorahMusings.com, YUTorah is my
trip back to yeshiva. Rabbi Student
discovered the site soon afer it launched
and has been incorporating it into his
writing ever since.
I listen to shiurim mainly during
my commute and reconnect to my
rebbeimjust hearing their voices makes
a diference and takes me back in time,
he said. At frst, I would listen mostly to
Rav Hershel Schachters parsha shiurim;
I always had something to say on the
parsha and I would also get his opinion
on the issues of the day. I also listened to
many practical halacha shiurim, including
the extensive Yoreh Deah oferings.
Interestingly, a Catholic from Europe
with whom I once corresponded told me
that he avidly followed Rabbi Michael
Rosensweigs daily Gemara shiur.
Rabbi Student especially appreciated
the recent addition of more than 8,000
journals and scholarly articles that are
now available on the site. I enjoy the
easy access to YU scholarship, especially
the historical issues of Beis Yitzchak, he
said.
Te addition of other historical
material, such as uploads of recorded
shiurim that were given in YU over
the past 50 years, has also created new
learning opportunities for students,
distinguished Torah scholars and even,
in some cases, the original lecturers
themselves. People can ask me questions
now about shiurim I gave in 1994! said
Rabbi Aaron Rakefet-Rothkof 61R,
professor of rabbinic literature at YUs
Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute
in Jerusalem and one of YUTorahs most
popular speakers.
More than 1,000 shiurim of Rabbi
Rakefets have been posted on the site
in categories that range from Jewish
law to Zionism and Jewish thought to
refections on Torah personalities. Rabbi
Rakefet sets aside two hours each day to
answer the correspondence he receives
from YUTorah users. Ive goten leters
from Australia that say, Tank you for
making it possible for me to stay frum,
signed, your talmid, he said. A virtual
talmid is just as good as a regular talmid.
YUTorah is the tomorrow that has
already arrived today.
In 2006, Marcos and Adina Katz
gave a generous gif to endow YUTorah.
Mr. Katz, who has served on the Board
of Trustees of Yeshiva University since
1979, received the Eitz Chaim Award,
the highest honor bestowed by RIETS,
at the 2006 Chag HaSemicha. He and
Mrs. Katz are benefactors of Yeshiva
University, and the Marcos and Adina
Katz Kollel is dedicated in honor of them.
Teir leadership and vision for Jewish
learning has revolutionized the way that
Torah is studied in our institutions and
communities today.
Additionally, YUTorah users can
dedicate days, weeks, or months of
learning in memory of a loved one or to
mark a special occasion. In 2014, 219
days were sponsored.
Since YUTorahs inception, we
have convened the academic talent
of our Roshei Yeshiva, our academic
community, and our alumni to create
one of the most robust Torah sites in
the Jewish world, said Rabbi Kenneth
Brander 86R, Vice President for
University and Community Life at YU.
Our research has shown that for close
to 50 percent of our users, YUTorah has
been their frst connection with Yeshiva
University. Troughout the past nine-
and-a-half years, it has been a personal
privilege to be involved with Rabbi Shur
and the Yeshiva University community in
the development of this initiative, sharing
Torah with 250,000 Jews annually from
across the world. n
The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah.org in 2004
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Mussar Initiative at Yeshiva
Te Yeshiva began a new mussar initiative
in memory of fallen IDF soldiers and
recent victims of terror in Israel. With
many special shiurim and sedarim that
focus on the middot of Bein Adam
Lchaveiro, the Talmidei HaYeshiva have
the opportunity to make this a growing
time, and to tap into the strong sense of
achdut that has grasped our communities.
Already one can feel the energy
and excitement in the Beit Midrash and
around campus, said Rabbi Ely Bacon
01R, Mashgiach Ruchani and Assistant
Dean of Undergraduate Torah Studies.
At the same time, the tone is clearly one
of Elul as talmidim are taking their avodat
Hashem seriously.
Maariv will take place 15 minutes
later than usual in order to encourage time
for Mussar Seder. In addition, the Yeshiva
will host special sichot mussar including
Mashpia Rabbi Moshe Weinberger 83R
and Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University
Professor of Jewish History and Jewish
Tought and Senior Scholar, CJF.
Students can choose from a variety of
daily and weekly shiurim.
Daily shiurim include Rambams
Hilchot Teshuvah by RIETS Rosh Yeshiva
Rabbi Mayer Twersky 85R, and mussar
chaburot with RIETS Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi
Yitzchok Cohen 65R and Kollel Elyon
fellow Rabbi Yakov Grun 12R.
Weekly shiurim include: Pachad
Yitzchak on Yamim Noraim by Rabbi
Ely Bacon; Tefllah Vaad with Rabbi
Menachem Penner 95R, Max and
Marion Grill Dean, RIETS; and the Ravs
Al HaTeshuva by Rabbi Yaakov Glasser
01R, David Mitzner Dean, CJF and
University Life.
Te Elul zman mussar initiative will
culminate with a pre-Rosh Hashanah
Torahthon15 hours of nonstop
learning. Tis program is open to all
Rabbinic Alumni and will take place
in the Glueck Beit Midrash beginning
on Tuesday, September 23 at 9 a.m.
and ending at midnight on Wednesday,
September 24, with selichot to follow.
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ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Visits Yeshiva
Rabbi david Baruch Lau Meets with Roshei Yeshiva, Center for the Jewish future Staff
Rabbi David Baruch Lau, the Ashkenazi
Chief Rabbi of Israel, visited Yeshiva
University on May 8. Te Chief Rabbi
met with Roshei Yeshiva and President
Richard M. Joel. He also spoke with YUs
Center for the Jewish Future senior staf
about their work around the world with
rabbis, communities and students, and
toured the Wilf Campus and the Jacob
and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish
Studies with students.
During the Chief Rabbis visit he
was very curious about YUs eforts in
engaging communities, both rabbinic and
lay-leadership, throughout the Diaspora,
said Rabbi Kenneth Brander 86R, Vice
President for University and Community
life at YU. He was impressed with the
leadership opportunities our students
are involved in throughout the Jewish
world and was inspired by his meeting
with Roshei Yeshiva and President Joel.
It is critical that Yeshiva University and
the Chief Rabbis ofce have an ongoing
relationship.
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Confict Resolution workshop for Rabbis
Fifeen pulpit rabbis participated in a
three-day mediation training seminar,
May 19-21, focusing on confict
resolution and organized by CJF and
RIETS, in conjunction with the Kukin
Program for Confict Resolution at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Te training was presented by
atorneys Rabbi Adam Berner 94R and
Sequoia Stalder, both expert trainers
in the feld of mediation and confict
resolution.
By defnition, rabbis here and in
all places are serving so many diferent
rolesin the pulpit, as teachers and as
educators, working with many people,
and people have diferences, said Rabbi
Berner, an alumnus of Cardozo and an
assistant professor at Cardozo. Tis
workshop is a frame of how best to
help these leaders deal with diferences,
how to manage the realities of being in
a community, and how to take confict
and see it is an opportunity for growth,
learning and change, for themselves and
for others.
Trough a combination of discussion
and collaborative role-playing activities,
the training was designed to teach
participants how to maximize the chance
of being on the positive side of a confict,
said Stalder, who founded a company to
provide workplace mediation training
and serves as an adjunct professor at
Columbia Universitys International
Center for Cooperation and Confict
Resolution. We create a framework for
a dialogue, teaching specifc skills that
support that dialogue. We teach how to
get to the root of the confict, with the
goal being collaboration, to determine
how the needs of both sides can be met.
For Rabbi Shaanan Gelman 06R, the
workshop and the topics it covered hit
close to home.
Not a week goes by without me
being personally engaged in confict
resolution in some form, whether its
communal, ritual, familial or on an
organizational level, said Rabbi Gelman
of Kehilat Chovevei Tzion in Skokie, IL.
Tis conference provided the building
blocks of managing conficts on all fronts
of the rabbinate, infnitely valuable skills
that touch upon every aspect of the job
and teach you to understand all sides of a
contentious issue.
Other atendees viewed the training
as a vital part of their ongoing rabbinic
education.
Tis training was about seeing
conficts from diferent angles and how
to efectively work toward a resolution,
said Rabbi Jeremy Donath 11R, who
leads Congregation Darchei Noam in
Fair Lawn, NJ. Its great to be able to
come back to my alma mater to learn
and engage in the growth process.
To be connected to YU and have the
opportunity to atend these trainings is
really an asset for me in my perpetual
education.
Tis unique collaboration between
all aspects of the University, convened by
the Center for the Jewish Future, brings
best practices from the legal feld to bear
on rabbinic leadership, said Rabbi Levi
Mostofsky 03R, director of the CJFs
Department of Continuing Education.
In addition to developing the rabbis
capacity to mediate, the experience
broadened our view of confict,
with broad application in personal,
professional and even religious life.
As a spiritual mentor and a role
model, these are life skills that a rabbi
needs, added Rabbi Berner. Its a
privilege to be able to come back to
Yeshiva, 20 years afer I graduated, to help
both the rabbinic community and the
legal community.
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Rabbi Adam Berner (94R), seated, and Sequoia Stalder presented a workshop for rabbis on confict
resolution.
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Rabbi Levi Mostofsky, director of Continuing
Education, to join the Chicago Rabbinical Council
as Executive director
Rabbi Levi Mostofsky 03R, Director
of Continuing Education and Rabbinic
Alumni at Yeshiva Universitys Center
for the Jewish Future, is leaving to join
the Chicago Rabbinical Council (CRC).
Rabbi Mostofsky graduated from Yeshiva
College with a degree in biology before
continuing his studies at the Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Teological Seminary. In 2003
he began working at Yeshiva University
in the Max Stern Division of Communal
Services, flling many roles, including
editor of CHAVRUSA magazine, and has
been on the staf of the Center for the
Jewish Future since its inception.
In praise of Rabbi Mostofsky, his
longtime colleague and mentor, Rabbi
Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor
of Jewish History and Jewish Tought
and Senior Scholar at the CJF, raised an
important question that may encourage
refective practice.
How many of us can say that we
helped shape an entire feld? We hope
to have some infuence, maybe, on our
loved ones, and maybe on some members
of our kehillah, but on thousands of
rabbis? asked Rabbi Schacter. Tat
is, precisely, what Rabbi Mostofsky has
done during his years with us at CJF. His
strategic thinking, wisdom, thoughtful
planning and expert implementation
has helped create the feld of ongoing
rabbinic professional education. He
has spearheaded conferences, webinars
and multiple online opportunities for
thousands of rabbis whose lives he has
deeply and profoundly enhanced.
Rabbi Mostofsky developed a cadre
of programs for rabbis under the aegis
of the Legacy Heritage Fund Rabbinic
Enrichment Initiative. He coordinated
the continuing education and support
programming for rabbis and rebbetzins,
including conferences, seminars and
online services and resources. Our
rabbis have been enriched by the quality
of programing online and in conferences
ofered throughout his tenure, said
Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg 83R,
Director of the Morris and Gertrude
Bienenfeld Department of Jewish Career
Development and Placement at CJF and
RIETS. Tese cuting-edge initiatives
have strengthened the American
rabbinate in ways we could have only have
dreamed about before Rabbi Mostofsky
took on this immense challenge.
Rabbi Mostofsky will be sorely
missed.
I personally learned a great deal
from Levi, said Rabbi Schacter. I will
miss him as a partner in the work I do
and recognize that all we may be able
to accomplish in the future is due
directlyto what he has put into place
for us. I am thrilled for Levi that he
going to bring his enormous talents
and creativity to the Chicago rabbinic
community and I join his many friends in
wishing him continued hatzlachah.
As a new year approaches, the
rabbinic programming team at CJF will
continue to provide quality learning
opportunities for alumni under the
guidance of Rabbi Ari Sytner, Director
of Community Initiatives, and Rabbi
Naphtali Lavenda 09R, Director of
Online Rabbinic Programming.
n
How many of us can
say that we helped
shape an entire
feld? We hope to
have some infuence,
maybe, on our loved
ones, and maybe on
some members of
our kehillah, but on
thousands of rabbis?
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
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divrei Chizuk
Teres a story told about the Rebbe from
Rodeshitz, a tzaddik who was killed in the
Holocaust. It was the night before Erev
Yom Kippur in 1942 in the Lodz Gheto,
and the Jews of the gheto felt broken and
lost. Te one thing the Rebbe was longing
for was to be able to immerse in a mikvah.
Te Germans had cemented up all the
entrances of all the mikvas in the gheto,
claiming that they were unsanitary.
Afer curfew, a boy came to the
Rebbe and told him that a mikvah had
been found. Tis is an absolute secret,
he told the Rebbe. Tere is a building
adjacent to another building which
has a mikvah in its basement; we were
able to dig a hole from one building to
another using penknives, spoons, and
screwdrivers in order that we reach the
mikvah. No one is allowed to know about
this, and only I was sent to inform a few
Rosh Yeshivas and Rebbes that are still
alive here in the gheto.
Risking their lives, the Rebbe went
with his shaames to fnd this building.
When they got there, they found
themselves in a large basement packed
with hundreds of Jewsnot just Rosh
Yeshivas and Rebbes. Apparently the
secret had goten out. Each and every
person who was there had risked his life
to go out afer the curfew. One person at
a time was being hoisted up and pushed
through the hole that had been carved in
the basement wall. Tere was one person
on the other side to help people come
through the hole. Te Rebbe called out:
Hashem, who is like Your nation, Yisrael.
With all of his sufering and misery, all a
Jew wants is to fnd an opening, a way to
reach something holy and pure!
Tis point in time that were in right
now is the opening to the mikvah. It is
the opening to the mikvah in a world
that in diferent ways is darker than Lodz
in 1942.
Te Sefer Yetzira says that everything
exists is space (Olam), exists in time
(Shana), exists in the soul (Nefesh), and
has a corresponding existence in each of
these worlds. In physical space, the holiest
place in the world of course is the Kodesh
Kodashim. In time, it is Neilah. In Nefesh,
it is the Kohen Gadol.
So what time are we at now? Elul, Erev
Slichos, approaching that time of Neilah.
.
Te sefarim say that this does not just
mean to stand physically at the gates of
Yerushalayim. Raglayim, legs, feet, is also
a lashon of hergel, of habit. We become
meshubad to habits. Not just in our
behavior, but in our way of thinking, in
our way of living.
means that when we come to the
gates of Yerushalayim, as we approach the
time of selichos, as we are about to leave
5774 and Bezrat Hashem to enter into
5775 we have to stop
all of the hergelim, all of the things that
we do, just because we are doing them.
We must revisit all of the habits of the
year and reject that which we have not
really evaluated. We must face the painful
truth that somehow over the year you and
I have slipped away from what we wanted
last Yom Kippur.
were at the gates of Yerushalayim now.
We are just approaching , the
Gates of Yerushalayim.
Te story is told about how the Baal
HaTanya, who would lein every Shabbos,
was once not there to lein the Tochacha.
When his young son (later to become the
Mitler Rebbe, Rav Dov Ber) heard the
Tochacha being read by a Baal Koreh, he
cried the whole time. Afer davening they
asked him, Berel, what is it? What is
it! he says, the Tochacha! Tey replied,
But havent you heard the Tochacha
before? Yes, I know, but my when father
reads it, I hear only the brachos.
Let us try to hear one of these
brachos.

.
Te Torah says in the parsha of the
Tochacha that Hashem will establish us
and lif us up as a great and holy people.
.
Only if we live in the way of Torah and
mitzvos.
Te Torah then says something
astonishing:

.
All of the nations of the world will see
that the name of Hashem is upon you and
Recognizing our Kochos
Rabbi Moshe Weinberger 83R, Mashpia
(Adapted from a Sicha delivered Elul 5773)
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they will fear you. It is not just a mater of
what other people think of us. Te Torah
is saying that when we live according to
the will of Hashem, when we try to be
good Jews, then . What
does this mean? Te seforim tell us that it
means that the Shem Hashem is engraved
very deep within each and every one
of usit is the essence of who we are.
We all have a chelek of . Emunah
is not something that we have to fnd
somewhere else; emunah is something
we have to uncover within ourselves.
means that the Torah is
telling us that there is a way; that if we live
the right way, the Shem Hashem that is
within us will be revealed in our lives.
And if we succeed at this then it
wont just guide our lives, but others will
see as well, .
However if we dont live according to
Hashems will, there will be Tochacha.
Let us elaborate. Te Meshech
Chochmah traces the Tochacha to one
essential pasuk:

.
Te root of all of our difculties is
failing to serve Hashem with happiness.
refers to all of the things that
Hashem Yisbarach has given us and our
lack of gratitude for all the berachos of
life. But on a deeper level, means
that, besides all the things he has given
us, He has given each and every one of
us from Himself; a chelek of . Te
Rov Kol is not referring to what you
have, but who you are .
Te core of who a person is, a nefesh
Elokis, a sechel Eloki.
Te Meshech Chochmah writes
that man must rejoice, praise, and give
thanks to Hashem from the depths of
his heart because of who we are and who
we can become. Te Ribono Shel Olam
gave us, from Himself, a nefesh Elokis,
a sechel Eloki, the kochos to live lives of
Kedusha. For this you and I should be
dancing with simcha.
Tus, the Tochacha says:

.
Hashem Yisbarach, because of his
great love for us, has invested Himself
into our existence. :
Hashem has invested Himself into us. A
father and a mother, for example, know
how heartbreaking it is when you put
everything you have into a child, you give
yourself over to your child and you know
that the child has unbelievable abilities,
and yet the child says, No, Im a nobody,
Im a nothing, Im this, Im that, or acts in
a way that demonstrates that he believes
that he is a nobody, that he is nothing.
Te parents watch this and their hearts
are broken, because the parents know
that the nature of the child is special and
wonderful. All the parents want is that
the child should be successful and take
advantage of his teva, the maalos that he
has. Tat is all the parents want. And that
is all Hakodosh Baruch Hu wants from us.
Te whole Tochacha revolves around
this nekuda, with the Boreh Olam saying
to each and every one of us and to Am
Yisrael as a people: Children, do you
know how much I love you? Do you know
how much Ive given you? Do you know
what I have infused into you, that which I
have invested into you?
What are you doing with the Rov
Kol? What are you and I doing with the
Rov Kol that HaKadosh Baruch Hu has
given us? Do we feel this simcha? Do we
feel the excitement and the joy of being
singled out by the Boreh Kol Olamos, by
having within us this nefesh Elokis? Tis
is the charge of the Mayrov Kol. Now if
this is the charge throughout the entire
year and every moment of life, how much
more so when it comes to this time of
year, to the Yimay Haratzon, to the Yimay
Hadin. Because at this time of the year
there is one particular talent and maalah
of a Jew that throughout the whole year
might be very hidden and concealed. But
when it comes to , where we
are now, it is forbidden to ignore this gif.
What is this gif? Tere is a famous
Chazal: the Malachim asked the middah
of Chachmah, if a person sins what is the
punishment? Chochmah answers: the
sins of a person bring his destruction. Te
Malachim ask Nevuah, if a person sins
what is his punishment? Answers Nevuah,
if a person sins, he dies; and fnally they
ask HaKadosh Baruch Hu: If a person
sins, what is his punishment? Hashem
says, do teshuvah and the teshuvah will
atone for him, yaaseh teshuvah vyiskaper
lo. Tat means that Hashem Yisbarach
was michadesh such a metzius, which
Chazal tell us was kadma lolam. Hashem
was michadesh such a metzius, called
teshuvah. Yaaseh teshuvah nyiskaper lo
means that man was given the ability, this
greatest gif of all, to change, to turn the
clock back.
Te Ramchal asks in the fourth perek
of Mesillas Yesharim: how is it possible
for a person to correct that which was
already made crooked? How is it possible
to remove something from existence? It
exists! Te Ribono Shel Olam revealed to
us yaaseh teshuvah vyiskaper lo, the gif
of changing, the gif of going back, the gif
of having a chance to start again.
When Adam HaRishon ate from the
tree, he said, the wife that you gave me,
she was the one who gave me from the
tree and I ate. Interestingly, the pasuk
says , which is future tense, and not
. Chazal learn that Adam HaRishon
said to the Boreh Olam, I have eaten
from the tree and I am going to continue
to eat from the tree.
But what does that mean ,
that I ate from the tree and Im going to
eat from the tree? Te simple pshat is
that Adam HaRishon is saying: Ribono
Shel Olam, You created me with your
own hands. Im the yetzir kapav of
Hashem. And despite all of that and
despite the fact that before I ate from the
tree I was naki, I was clean, I was tahor,
I was kadosh, I was pure, and with all of
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this, I ate from the tree. So Im lost. If
I ate from the tree despite the fact that
I was a kadosh and a tahor, then I have
to tell you Ribono Shel Olam, Achalti
VaOchal, that I am doomed to spend the
rest of my life commiting that sin and
other sins over and over. I am doomed to
a life of sin. However, he was mistaken;
the Ribono Shel Olam revealed to us
yaaseh teshuvah vyiskaper.

.

.

.
.(- : )
Rav Leib Chasman ztl asks a
powerful question. Normally when you
have a hava amina that is somewhat of,
it will be adjusted in the maskana. For
example, if you ask somebody how long
does it take to get from this place to that
place? Does it take fve hours? that is
the hava amina. Te person says no, no,
maybe four and a half. Tat makes sense.
It was close. Not fve hours, but four and
a half. However, if somebody says I have
a hava amina that it takes fve hours to get
to that place and the person says it takes
only fve minutes, then the hava amina is a
not worth addressing. It is not even worth
talking about such a hava amina.
And yet over here, the hava amina
to be a kadosh and tahor is very far away,
in Shamayim, meever layam. And whats
the maskana? Te maskana is: No, no,
no. Its not bshamayim. Its not meever
layam.
You know where it is?
.
What kind of hava amina is that,
Shamayim, meever layam? And the
maskana is what ,
fve minutes? Not even fve minutes
?!
Its all a mater of perspective. Rav
Leib Chasman says that from a purely
physical perspective, when a person
is on the outside of yiddishkeit, then
the Torah and Ribono Shel Olam are a
million miles away from you. But if you
have the courage to enter into that place
of , of , if
you enter that place of within, you
will discover and be shocked that,
, I did not realize
. Just like
when a child is afraid to undertake some
next step in life and he sees it as being a
million miles away, and the parents know
he can do it and somehow he is able to
break through that fear, and he does it and
hes so excited, .
Rav Noson of Breslov writes that
as soon as a person strengthens himself
with a ratzon of holiness, he should
not to be afraid that it is beyond his
reach, that it is meever layam, or in
Shamayim. He must move forward
with determination that even if it is in
Shamayim, Im going to go, Im going to
do this. Even if it means geting across
the ocean, Im going to learn the pshat
in this Tosafos, I can do it. Rav Noson
says that immediately, he discovers
. Ten he realizes that all the devarim
she bkedusha that he thought was
meever layam or in Shamayim, were in
truth close to us all along.
means to be
bsimcha regardless of whatever is
missing from your life in the metzius of
this world, but to be bsimcha with the
Rov Tov, with the Rov Kol of what the
Borei Olam has given us.
Te Hagaos Haashri (second perek
of Bava Metzia) quotes a maaseh that was
brought to the Baal HaYireim. Tere was a
Jew who bought some tar for fxing roofs,
but then decided that he did not need
it and sold it to another Jew. And lo and
behold, under the tar, under the shmutz,
the second Jew fnds a lot of money. Te
frst Jew went to beis din, claiming that
the money belongs to him because it is a
mekach taus since he only had in mind to
sell the tar. He never ever had in mind to
sell the money that was there (that he did
not know about).
Te Yireim paskened that the second
Jew owns the money that is buried
underneath. Tis is because the frst
fellow was not zoche in this money since
he didnt know of it and he therefore did
not have any kavanah to be koneh it.
Te Mei Hashiloach, the Ishbitzer,
says on this psak of the Yireim that if a
person owns the greatest treasures in the
world, but if he does not know of those
treasures, then he cannot be zoche in
them and they are of no use to him.
If you do not know what is inside of
who you are then you cannot be zoche
to the gif that Hashem Yisbarach has
given us.
Te gif of teshuva and of mechila.
Te gif of Himself. Because thats the
gif thats buried underneath all the flfh
of our lives.
So the biggest brachah that I can
give is that you and I should be able to
uncover that Gif, to shake of all the
stuf that is covering it and to realize it is
reachable, .
We should be zoche that each and
every one of us to enter the gates of
Yerushalayim with simcha, btov levav and
to be able to go from that gate into the
next gate, into the next gate until fnally
we are able to stand, kivayachol, by the
Ribono Shel Olam Himself in the Beis
HaMikdash, to be zoche to be there to
see the kohen gadol, to see the maareh
kohen when he comes out of the Kodesh
Kodashim, bguelah hasheleima Bmiheira
Byameinu, Amen Vamen! n
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divrei Chizuk

. , - .
Te Lishkas Parhedrin becomes
the home of the Kohein Gadol for the
week preceding his avodah on Yom
HaKippurim. It is in this chamber that
he will prepare himself intellectually,
emotionally, and spiritually to represent
the Jewish people on Yom HaKippurim.
One can only imagine the mixed emotions
of apprehension and anticipation as the
reality of his awesome responsibility sets in
throughout the Asseres Yemei Teshuvah.
Te Gemara (Yoma, 10a-10b) relates a
fascinating halachic anomaly regarding this
chamber relative to the other rooms of the
Beis HaMikdash:
:
,
: .
,
. , .
...
.
Our rabbis taught: all of the chambers
in the Beit HaMikdash did not have a
mezuzah except for the Lishkas Parhedrin,
which served as living quarters for the
Kohein Gadol. Rabbi Yehuda said: Werent
there other living quarters in the Temple
that did not have a mezuzah? Rather, this
was a specifc institution for the Lishkas
Parhedrin. What is the reason for Rabbi
Yehuda? so that they should not say that
the Kohein Gadol is locked in prison.
What is the nature of Rabbi Yehudas
concern? Why would the obligation of
afxing a mezuzah to the door of this room
emanate from the perception that the
Lishkas Parhedrin appears as a prison?
Te Mishna in Taanis 26b states:


Despite its character as a day of
inuy, Yom HaKippurim stands as yom
tov of mikrah kodesh. Indeed, the entire
experience of Yom Kippur is designed to
empower us to transcend our physicality
and embrace a higher level of living that is
saturated with the meaning and purpose
of serving as an eved Hashem. Living in
a hedonistic world, which is defned by
the aspiration of seeking lifes greatest
pleasures, makes it difcult to resolve
the values of restraint and meaning that
characterize so much of Torah life. Yet
this is precisely what the Torah asks of us:
to harness the physical dimensions of this
world, and elevate them in service of the
Ribono Shel Olam.
Te Lishkas Parhedrin appears to
the outsider as a prison. It is a space that
has been sanctifed to inspire and train
the Kohein Gadol in the procedures
of his avodah. He lives secluded from
his family, and is engaged in a highly
structured process of preparation for
the avodas Yom HaKippurim. Te
chamber seems confning and limiting
to the untrained spiritual eye. In reality,
this environment provides the Kohein
Gadol with the foundation to encounter
the most profound moment of Divine
connection imaginable. Chazal mandate
the placement of the mezuzah to project
to those outside of this process that the
dimensions of Jewish life, which ofen
feel so imprisoning, are in fact saturating
ones experience with the nuanced
opportunities to draw closer to G-d and
lead a meaningful life.
Contemporary rabbinic leadership
confronts a generation that increasingly
views the framework of Torah and
mitzvos as a beis haasurim, as a lifetime
of inuy. It is our role to place a mezuzah
on the doorway of our shuls, schools,
and homes that project the ideals of
veahavta es Hashem Elokecha, and
defnes the religious experience as one of
inspiration and growth. Torah Judaism
requires sacrifce, and demands a lifestyle
of discipline and restraint. In a world
that endlessly innovates mediums of
technology that are designed to circumvent
any efort or inconvenience of daily life,
Torah observance stands challenged in
its design to encourage and promote
the diligence and sacrifce of living a life
of sanctity and purpose. Rabbi Yehuda
provides our mandateshelo yomru
We provide the mezuzos of religious life
Rabbi Yaakov Glasser was recently appointed David Mitzner Dean of the Center for the Jewish Future and University Life at Yeshiva University. Rabbi
Glasser also serves as the Rav of the Young Israel of Passaic-Clifon. Rabbi Glasser comes to Yeshiva with a rich background in Jewish communal and
organizational life, and held positions such as the Regional Director of New Jersey NCSY and the NCSY International Director of Education. In these
capacities, Rabbi Glasser worked extensively with communities and schools across North America to create programs and implement educational curricula
that inspire Jewish teens fom across the spectrum of afliation. Rabbi Glasser lives with his wife, Dr. Ruth Glasser, and four children in Passaic, NJ.
Transforming
our
Communities
Rabbi Yaakov Glasser 01R
David Mitzner Dean,
Center for the Jewish Future and University Life
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that transform and uplif our communities
desire to engage in religious life.
Te poskim (see R. Akiva Eigers
comments on Magen Avraham 618:10
and Ohr Samayach, Hilchos Avodas
Yom HaKippurim 4:1) discuss the
unique status Yom HaKippurim when it
coincides with Shabbos. If people fnd
themselves in a situation where they are
halachically required to break their fast
for reasons of health, are they required to
recite Kiddush, Hamotzi, Yaaleh Veyavo,
etc.? Te Ohr Samayach explains that
despite the seeming suspension of the
formal requirements of inuy in deference
to health concerns, when Yom Kippur
coincides with Shabbos, the entire
requirement of oneg is redefned based
upon the character of the day as one of
inuy. Veinisem es nafshoseichem means
that the limits of indulgence that defne
Yom Hakippurim, become the source,
and not the competition, to the oneg
of Shabbos. In the context of religious
growth, inuy and oneg can merge into a
higher calling of standing lifnei Hashem.
Summer 5774 was a deeply
challenging time for the Jewish people.
Te loss of life, beginning with the
young boys who united our nation, and
continuing with the brave heroes of Am
Yisrael who went into batle to protect the
Jewish people throughout the world, was
excruciating. Yet the war also provided
many moments of introspection and
realignment. It provided opportunities
for us to consider our priorities and what
truly maters in life. As our brethren in
Israel were hunkered down in bomb
shelters and stairwells, the Jewish
people managed to place a mezuzah on
the isolating chambers of protection.
Te inuy gave way to deep oneg as we
experienced a renaissance of unity
throughout the Jewish world. HaKadosh
Baruch Hu asks us to surrender our
personal comforts and indulgences to a
higher purpose of sanctity and meaning.
Let us join together, in teshuvah and
teflah, and reach that aspiration of yom
tov that can defne all of the Yom Kippur
moments throughout our lives.
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CHAVRUSA: What are some of the
challenges that your community
will face during the Shemittah year,
and what measures do you have in
place to meet these challenges?
When one approaches the Shemitah
year, it must be with an atitude of
excitement and looking forward. Ofen,
we get caught up in the nity-grity
details of a halacha (which obviously
are important), and overlook the deeper
messages of the mitzvah. One who is
uninitiated and has never experienced
a Shabbat might be intimidated and
overwhelmed by the world of Hilchot
Shabbat, and think of it as no more
than a day of nos and limitations to
navigate through; and yet we know that
Shabbat is our identity, our lifeline, and
we cannot imagine a life without Shabbat
and all that it represents for us and our
families. So too, this is how we must try
to approach this year of Shemitah, which
the Torah itself links to Shabbat. Yes,
there are challenges and intricate details
of which we must familiarize ourselves,
but we cannot lose sight of the goal of this
year, of recognizing the kedusha which
our Holy Land exhibits, refected by
limitations and prohibitions, as well as the
privilege which we have to partake of its
holy fruit.
Being seen in this light, any
challenge takes on a whole new
meaning. Its not something that I
have to deal with, but an opportunity
to fulfll a mitzvah that most of our
ancestors could only dream of. It is an
area of halacha that must be studied
thoroughly to master, with many
contemporary guides available to help
us along. Tis represents the greatest
challenge, to familiarize ourselves
with an area of halacha that has been
transformed for us from lshma into
halacha lmaaseh. Te only way to
prepare for this year is to learn and
study its laws. In our shul, the Shabbat
afernoon shiur throughout the year
will be devoted almost exclusively to
Shemitah topics.
CHAVRUSA: What unique
experiences have impacted you in
preparation for this year? Do you
see Shemittah differently now that
you have been living in Israel?
Te Shulchan Aruch HaRav tells us
that each of us must master kol haTorah
kulah, including learning about all of the
613 mitzvot. Even one living in chutz
laaretz has an obligation to learn Hilchot
Shemitah. But it is a totally diferent
experience when one is not just learning
it, but living it.
My wife and I ofen discuss,
regarding many events that we have lived
through over the last six years (since
aliyah), that there is a major emotional,
spiritual, and existential diference
Preparing for Shemitah
An Interview with Rabbi Shalom Rosner 97R
Rabbi Shalom Rosner is the Rav of Kehilat Nofei Hashemesh in Bet Shemesh, and
Rebbe at Yeshivot Reishit Yerushalayim and Shaalvim. Before making aliyah in
August 2008, Rabbi Rosner served as a Maggid Shiur at Yeshiva Universitys Stone
Beit Midrash Program and as the Rabbi of Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok,
the Island Shul, for six years. During the summers, Rabbi Rosner is Camp Rabbi
and Director of educational programming at Camp Kaylie.
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between watching the game from the
sidelines and playing the game. In Israel,
one feels like he is playing the game, be it
regarding , be it taking
part in a Yom Haatzmaut or in a Yom
HaZikaron ceremony in this land where
the events actually took place, or be it
feeling deeply part of the , as when
some of the teenagers from our shul were
sent into Gaza to defend our country.
Everything here is just more real; there
is an intangible that is the result of
, and we are privileged to
be part of it. One of our aliyah moments
was (six years ago) when our then 5-year-
old daughter took an apple out of the
refrigerator, and innocently asked, Abba,
does it have kedusha? What a question,
what a zechut.
So the answer is yes, of course we
view it diferently now, as living in Eretz
Yisrael impacts on everything one is
involved in, be it their physical or spiritual
lives.
CHAVRUSA: What inspiring
messages do you share with your
kehillah regarding Shemittah?
Te messages of Shemitah are gleaned
from all the classic texts which we look
to for guidance for any mitzvah. Just
to mention a few ideas without going
into the specifc sources (Ramban,
Chinuch, Kli Yakar, and Beer Yosef ),
we know that keeping the laws of
Shemitah requires perseverance and
commitment, refection, bitachon and
an acknowledgement of who is the real
Baal HaBayit of the world. It demands
our cessation from certain creative
agricultural work, just as Hashem rested
on the seventh day of maaseh bereishit.
It should create within us a heightened
awareness of our fellow Jews who are not
so fortunate, and help develop within
us our . Rav Rimon notes
that though most of us are not in the
agricultural feld (or those who do not
yet live in Eretz Yisrael), the messages of
Shemitah can still be practiced. Giving
of our time and advice to those in need,
voluntarily opening up our expertise to
those who are not so fortunate, inviting
people who might not receive as many
invitations as most others, are all at least
partial fulfllments of what Shemitah is
all about. Supporting fnancially (through
congregational collections) the farmers
who sacrifce tremendously to observe
Shemitah is also a great opportunity to
make a real diference in the lives of fellow
Jews.
CHAVRUSA: Now that youre living
in Israel, what do you hope to
convey to RIETS alumni living in the
Diaspora?
Jewish leadership is required everywhere
throughout the world. Where there
are Jews, there must be rabbis. But as
the great Terumat Hadeshen writes in
one of his teshuvot, we must constantly
think and reassess where can I best be
the servant that Hashem wants me to
be. Where can I afect the most Jews,
where can I have the greatest impact on
Jewish history, along with the questions
of when can I move to a place that we all
know is the real center and destiny of the
Jewish future. And each rabbi, with his
family, must deal with this very personal,
defning decision, constantly asking
himself, Where does Hashem want me?
It is not a simple discussion for anyone,
and I might add, especially for rabbis,
who have communal responsibilities
weighing on their shoulders.
I would just like to close with the
words of advice that my Rebbe, Rav
Michael Rosensweig, gave to me when
we were debating what to do. He said that
whatever the decision, one must fgure
out a way to afect the Jews on the other
side of the ocean as well. If the decision
is to make aliyah, fnd means to continue
making a diference for American Jewry
as well (writing, blogging, computer
shiurim, trips, etc). And if the decision
is to stay temporarily in Galut, one must
constantly explore avenues of helping,
supporting, and identifying with the Jews
in Eretz Yizrael. May we all merit the day
when there wont be any decisions to
make, and all Jews will dance together in
Yerushalayim.
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In appreciation of haGaon Rav Gershon
Yankelewitz ztl
By Rabbi Elchanan adler 90R (adapted from a hesped given at Yeshiva, September 3, 2014)
Alongside the attention-grabbing headlines that characterize life at Yeshiva University, there is a lesser-
known story that has yet to be told. Its locus is a small offce on the ffth foor of Furst Hall, inhabited
by an elderly tzadika link to the past who studied at the feet of the gedolim of pre-war Europe and
served for almost six decades teaching at Yeshiva. In recent years, up to and including this past June,
Rav Gershon Yankelewitz would spend mornings in his offce, huddled over a Gemara. Aside from
teaching a daily shiur, he remained on call at all times to learn individually with talmidim a fraction of
his age, irrespective of their background and ability. For each talmid that he taught and interacted with,
Rav Yankelewitz displayed enormous patience and concern. From the daled amos of Furst Hall Room
508 emanated an extraordinary light that elevated the entire Yeshiva campus. Rav Yankelewitzs light
was extinguished on 23 Menachem Av, 5774 (August 19, 2014), four months shy of his 105th birthday.
.
Praiseworthiness, Radiance, and
Beauty
Chazal tell us:
a tzadiks departure leaves an
impression. Tey describe the impression
in terms of three aspects , ,.
When a tzadik is present in a city
, ,he is its hod,
he is its ziv, he is its hadar. When a tzadik
leaves , ,
each of these three aspects leaves with
him. According to the Maharal, these
expressions correspond to three distinct
realms of a tzadiks infuence: yiras
shamayim, chochmah, and middos tovos.
Hod, which comes from the word
meaning praise or thanks, refers to the
quality of yiras shamayim, which is, by
its very nature, worthy of praise and
accoladesas the pasuk (Mishlei 31:30)
states: A
woman who fears Hashem, she should
be praised. Ziv, which means shine,
represents chochmah, as the pasuk
(Koheles 8:1) states
A mans wisdom lights up his
face. Hadar, which connotes beauty, is
a reference to middos tovos, just as the
Mishnah in Avos (2:1) describes such
qualities as teferes leosehaa beauty
for one who displays them.
For almost 60 years, our yeshiva
merited to have a tzadik in our midst who
exemplifed all of these aspects to the
utmost.
Te yiras shamayim of Rav
Yankelewitz ztl was palpablehis
meticulousness in shemiras hamitzvos,
kala kevachamura. Well past his 100th
birthday, he would stand during kerias
haTorah, would make sure to wash netilas
yadayim for davening and not have to
rely on having done so in the morning,
and, as recently as this past Tisha BAv,
would insist on siting on the ground like
everyone else. When his son objected, he
remarked: Tis is how I always did it.
Regarding his Torah, Rav
Yankelewitz lef notebooks flled with
chidushim, including shiurim that he
heard from the Brisker Rav. His hasmada
was remarkablehe could easily spend
hours at a time over a Gemara. And, of
course, there is all of the Torah that he
taught to his many talmidim for close to
six decades.
Finally, Rav Yankelewitz had
extraordinary middos. He was a
gentleman in every sense of the word. He
was always quick to ofer compliments
and to express his genuine sense of
appreciation for others. He treated
everyone, young and old, with respect
and would freely compliment the
talmidim of the yeshiva, saying things like
you are tops.
A YU musmach who recently retired
from the rabbinate told me that he had
Rav Yankelewitz as a rebbe approximately
50 years ago at MTA. I asked him what
he recalled most; he said that Rav
Yankelewitz never, ever raised his voice
in class. But it goes beyond that: Rav
Yankelewitzs son Reb Moshe told me that
his father never raised his voice at all.
For Rav Yankelewitz, these three
components were not discrete aspects
of his personality; they were part of
an organic whole and inseparable
from one another. His Torah, his yiras
shamayim and his middos tovos were
chativa achasan integrated entity.
Rav Yankelewitz was an integrated
personalityhe embodied a sense of
shleimus. Like a polished diamond, there
were no rough edges.
His passing leaves an indelible void
within our Yeshiva ,
.
The Mussar Personality
It is impossible to truly appreciate the
greatness of Rav Yankelewitz without
understanding the world that shaped him.
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Rav Yankelewitz was molded by the great
Lithuanian Yeshivosprimarily Radin
and Mirand was deeply impacted
by the Musar Movement, whose ideals
permeated the koslei hayeshiva.
Mussar and the work of tikun
hamiddos wasnt divorced from talmud
Torah; it was part and parcel of the same
enterprise. Just as ameilus was expended
in analyzing sugya afer sugya in Shas,
so did ameilus go into dissecting the
sugya of sheviras hamiddosexercising
self-discipline in the refning of ones
personality and character. Mussar taught
that there should be no bifurcation within
ones personalityno diference between
bein adam lmakom and bein adam
lchaveiro, between how one behaves
in public among people and how one
behaves behind closed doors.
While in Radin, he was privileged
to be meshameish the Chofetz Chaim
and, later on, he became deeply atached
to the Mirrer Mashgiach, Rav Yerucham
Levovitz ztl, whose seforim never lef his
table.
Even more than Radin, it was the
experience of Mir that lef a lifelong
impact on Rav Yankelewitz and his
personality. For Rav Yankelewitz, mussar
wasnt an intellectual exercise, it was a way
of life. Rav Yeruchams schmuzen werent
vertlech to say over, but values of life that
he personifed and internalized. Tose
who are familiar with Rav Yeruchams
shmuzen know that the notion of
shleimusthe integrated personality
is a recurring and favorite theme. Rav
Yankelewitz embodied that sense of
shleimus because he was a living mussar
sefer.
How did this sense of shleimus
manifest itself here on these shores and in
our yeshiva?
Rav Yankelewitz lived his life with a
cheshbon. Everything he did was carefully
thought out; in Yiddish, the word for this
would be oisgecheshbint. He had an
impeccable sense of integrity and a deep
achrayus to his avodas hakodesh. Almost
until his 100th birthday, he traveled to
Yeshiva each day from his home in the
Bronx by two buses and walking the few
blocks from 181st street. It was not until
several years ago that Yeshiva arranged for
him to travel to and from the yeshiva with
a car service.
Sometimes I would arrive at Yeshiva
around the same time as Rav Yankelewitz,
and I would be lucky enough to escort
him from the car to his ofce in Furst
Hall 508. Even at the age of 104, Rav
Yankelewitz did not use a cane or a
walker. Rather, he held on to the elbow of
whoever was helping him, and he made
the trek from the parking lot down the
block, up some steps to the elevator, and
to his ofce.
Rav Yankelewitz would spend
several hours each day in his ofce
learning, and various talmidim would
stream in each day to hear shiur
from him. I would typically visit Rav
Yankelewitz in his ofce on Tursdays
and we would learn the sefer Daas
Torah for about 30 minutes. Tere was
something surreal and extraordinary
about learning with a gadol of this
calibersomeone who was a link to
the Torah giants of the past and whose
mind was still sharp at the age of 104.
He would read each word aloud with
his heavy litvishe accent, including the
mareh makom that appeared within
the parentheses. Afer concluding a
paragraph or two, he would look up
and ask: so what is he saying? inviting
me to summarize the main points in
a sentence or two. I started to look
forward to this time together and it
became a highlight of my week, so much
so that even afer the zman ended in
mid-June, I made a trip to his home to
learn together.
He possessed a genuine sense of
hakaras hatov to Yeshiva for providing
him with the opportunity to learn and to
teach Torah. His son, Reb Moshe, told
me that each year on the last day of the
zman Rav Yankelewitz would come in
to gather his belongings from his ofce.
Afer making an accounting of whatever
he needed to take with him, he would
take leave of his ofce. He would kiss
the mezuzah and express a tefllah that
the Ribono Shel Olam should give me
the zechus and koiach to return afer the
summer and continue for another year.
At the Chag HaSemicha in March,
which lasted for several hours, I sat
next to Rav Yankelewitz, who stayed
through the entire program. At fve or six
points along the way, there were musical
interludes and everyone in the auditorium
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stood up. To my surprise, each and every
time, Rav Yankelewitz turned toward
me and to Rav Mayer Twersky, who
was on his lef, and motioned to us to
help him up. Despite his age and health,
he didnt want to deviate from minhag
hamakom. As Chazal say, al tehi yoshev
bein haomdindont be seated among
those who are standing. But that is not
all. At the conclusion of the ceremony,
each musmach came up to the stage to
be acknowledged and to shake hands
with various roshei yeshiva. Tis part of
the proceeding itself must have taken a
good half hour. For the entire duration,
Rav Yankelewitz stood there, supported
by myself and by Rav Twersky. And as
each new musmach passed in front of
him, Rav Yankelewitz extended his hand
and wished them hatzlacha. Tat is the
essence of a musar personality.
Lessons in Anavah
Of all his remarkable qualities, the one
that perhaps stands out the most is his
anavah. Rav Yankelewitz didnt simply
preach anavahhe lived and breathed it.
Te Gemara (Sanhedrin 88b) records the
following:
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, ,
.
Who is a ben Olam Haba? One
who is modest and humble, enters while
bowing and leaves bowing, learns Torah
constantly, and does not take credit for
oneself.
Te ultimate atribute is
not taking credit for
oneself. Tis quality epitomized Rav
Yankelewitz. What most of us would
perceive as a pechisas hakavoda
slightmeant nothing to Rav
Yankelewitz. And not because he didnt
have a sense of dignity; to the contrary,
he had a certain regal, aristocratic quality
to him. It was just that the kinds of pety
things that annoy most of us were simply
not important to him. He would make
eforts to atend a simcha without the
slightest thought about geting a kibud.
Receiving kavod was simply not on his
radar screen.
Rav Yankelewitz had a natural sense
of anavah and did not hold himself to
be anyone special. When people would
ask him for berachos he would feel
uncomfortable. His son, Reb Yoel related
that he once asked his father: Pappa,
why are you so reluctant to give people
berachos? Rav Yankelewitz answered:
I am afraid if I start doing that, I will
become a baal gaavah. Tat comment
says it all.
Chazal mention a list of things for
which the main reward is in Olam Haba
but which bears dividends in Olam
Hazeh
. Rav
Yankelewitz was zoche through his
maasim tovim to reap peiros in Olam
Hazeh. He was zoche to the gif of arichas
yamim, with all of his wits about him
until the very end. He, along with his
Rebbetzin Bluma ah, raised a family
of seven childrenbanim uvnei vanim
oskim baTorah ubegemilus chasodim.
He was able to participate in so many
family simchaseven traveling to Eretz
Yisrael a few short years agowhen he
was already passed his 100th birthday. All
of this is surely neither sheer coincidence,
nor a function of good DNA, but rather a
gif from Hakodesh Boruch Hu, lmaalah
min hatevah.
We, Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak
Elchanan, were zoche for these many
years to have had a giant in our midst.
Someone who ofered a window into a
Torah world of the past. Someone who
bore the imprint of the mesorah in every
fber of his being. Someone who was a
walking musar seferwhose Torah, yiras
shamayim and middos tovos were all
fashioned from the same cloth and were
part of one integrated musar personality.
Someone who personifed the middah
of anavah, whose gadlus was contained
within his pashtus.
We need to refect on what he stood
for and strive to live our own lives with a
sense of shleimus, and with the genuine
sense of anavah that epitomized Rav
Yankelewitzs life.
May Rav Yankelewitz ztl be a meilitz
yosher for his family, for his talmidim, for
our yeshiva, and for all of klal Yisrael. n
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divrei hesped
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Recent Books
Medieval Commentary in the
Modern Era: The Enduring
Value of Classical Parshanut
Rabbi Yaakov Blau 96R
Moses and the Path to
Leadership
Rabbi Zvi
Grumet 83R
Peshat Isnt So Simple: Essays
on Developing a Religious
Methodology to Bible Study
Rabbi Hayyim Angel 95R
Derashot Ledorot: A
Commentary for the Ages:
Numbers
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm 51R
Madrikh La-Moreh: A Guide for
Talmud TeachersMasekhet
Berakhot
Rabbi Kenneth Schiowitz 99R
Rebbe
Rabbi Joseph
Telushkin 73R
Flames of Faith:
An Introduction to Chasidic
Thought
Rabbi Zev Reichman 02R
Go Up Like a Wall
Rabbi Chananya
Weissman 06R
Mitokh Ha-Ohel: From within
the TentEssays on the weekly
Parshah from the Rabbis and
Professors from Yeshiva University
Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman 98R
and Dr. Stu Halpern, Editors
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Life-Cycle Events
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Mazal Tov
Rabbi Mitchell 72R and Amy
Ackerson on the marriage
of their son, avidan, to Sara
Baumgarten.
Rabbi Hayyim 95R and
Maxine Angel on the birth of a
son, Mordechai Pinhas, and to
grandparents, Rabbi Marc 70R
and Gilda Angel.
Rabbi Hy 56R and Ann
Arbesfeld and Rabbi David
58R and Anita Miller on
the birth of a great-grandson,
Yehuda Leib, born to Sammy and
dani Schertz.
Rabbi Kenneth 78R and
Joanne Auman on the birth of a
grandson, to Rabbi and Mrs. Tzvi
auman.
Rabbi Yaron 09R and Sara
Barach on the birth of a
daughter, Zissel Chaya.
Rabbi Michael 06R and Dr.
Debra Bashist on the birth of a
son, Mordechai.
Rabbi Eli 10R and Rebecca
Belizon on the birth of a
daughter, Batsheva Esther.
Rabbi Joel 10R and
Chani Bloom on the birth
of a daughter, Sarah, and to
grandparents, Rabbi Allen 86R
and Alisa Schwartz.
Rabbi Mendel 12R and Abby
Breitstein on the birth of a
daughter, Tehilla Serach.
Rabbi Jonathan 08R and
Shonnie Chambre on the birth
of a son, dovid Eliyahu, and to
grandparents, Rabbi Allen 86R
and Alisa Schwartz.
Rabbi Dr. Shimon 46R and
Beila Eckstein on the marriage
of their granddaughter, Rebecca,
to Judah orlinsky.
Rabbi Avraham 12R and
Shoshana Engelson on the
birth of a son, Yehuda aryeh, and
to grandparents, Rabbi Darren
86R and Brenda Blackstein.
Rabbi Edward 71R and
Miriam Feigelman on the birth
a grandson, Tzvi Yehuda, born to
Shulem and Tikva weinreich.
Rabbi Ephraim 09R and
Chana Glatt on the birth of a
son, Eliezer Nissan.
Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Ozer and
Ilana Glickman on the birth of
a grandson, Liam Noach, born to
Maya and Matthew Engler.
Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Ozer and
Ilana Glickman on the marriage
of their son, Ron, to aimee Sidavi.
Rabbi Uri 06R and Julie
Goldstein on the birth of a
daughter, ayalah Nitzan.
Rabbi Lee-Ad 10R and Shira
Gottleib on the birth of a
daughter, Shalva Yael.
Rabbi Harris 63R and Judi
Guedalia on the birth of a
great-grandson, born to Gilat and
asher Sacks.
Rabbi Avi 03R and Shira
Heller on the Bar Mitzvah of
their son, Nadav.
Rabbi Simcha 14YY and Sara
Hopkovitz on the birth of a son,
avigdor Shimon Zvi..
Rabbi Carmi 69R and Sara
Horowitz on the birth of a
grandson, to amitai and Peer
horowitz.
Rabbi Aaron 10R and Molly
Katz on the birth of a daughter,
Batsheva Rachel.
Rabbi Dovid 93R and Bonnie
Kupchik on the Bar Mitzvah of
their son, abie.
Rabbi Elie Kurtz 14R on his
marriage to Elana Schwarzberg,
daughter of Rabbi Ronald 83R
and Judy Schwarzberg.
Rosh haYeshiva Emeritus Rabbi
Dr. Norman 51R and Mindella
Lamm on the marriage of their
grandson, Shmuel Lamm, to
Sara Lamar.
Rabbi Stuart 80R and
Karen Lavenda on the birth
of a granddaughter, adina
Chaya, born to Tova and avi
Rosenbloom.
Rabbi Binyamin 11R and Orit
Lehrfeld on the birth of a son,
Shaya Zev.
Rabbi Darren 13R and Avital
Levin on the birth of a son,
david Yair.
Rabbi Daniel 89R and
Netanya Mann and Rabbi
Mordechai 84R and Amy
Tropp on the birth of a
grandson, avraham, born to
aviva and Yaakov Tropp.
Rabbi Michael 10R and
Lauren Nadata on the birth of a
daughter, Chana Tiferet.
Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yaakov
79R and Peshi Neuburger on
the birth of a granddaughter, born
to aryeh and Chaya westreich,
and to great-grandfather, dean
Emeritus and Special advisor to
the President on Yeshiva affairs,
Rabbi Zevulun Charlop 54R.
Rabbi Meir 90R and Esther
Orlian on the birth of a
granddaughter, Sophia, born to
Sara and avrahami Rosenberg.
and on the birth of a grandson,
born to Zvi and Zuria orlian.
Rabbi Uri 14YY and Nava
Orlian on the birth of a son,
Shimon.
Max and Marion Grill dean
Rabbi Menachem 95R
and Adeena Penner on the
marriage of their daughter,
Elisheva, to Ben Langstein.
Rabbi Menashe 08R and
Miriam Rosen on the birth of a
daughter, Chaya.
Rabbi Yitzchak 62R and
Judith Rosenbaum on the birth
of a great-grandson, avraham
Yisrael Gedalia, born to Shifra
and Tzvi Pfeffer.
Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dr.
Michael 80R and Smadar
Rosensweig on the marraige of
their daughter, ayalah to Chanan
freilich. and to ayalahs great-
grandfather, Rabbi Dr. Bernard
Rosensweig 51R.
Rabbi Dr. Bernard
Rosensweig 51R on the
marriage of his grandson,
Netanel amar, to Tamar
Elmakias.
Rabbi Nachum 10R and
Devorah Miriam Rybak on
the birth of a son, Yaakov dovid,
and to grandparents, Rabbi Dr.
Solomon 66R and Shoshana
Rybak.
Rabbi Marc 83R and Gitty
Schneier on the birth of a
daughter, Brooke alexandra, and
to grandparents, Rabbi Arthur
56R and Elizabeth Schneier.
Rabbi Shimon 03R and
Malka Schenker on the birth of
a daughter, hadassah Miriam.
Rabbi Raphael Z. 83R and
Deborah Schwartz on the
marriage of their son, Maurice,
to dina honick.
Rabbi Allen 86R and Alisa
Schwartz on the birth of a
granddaughter, Tehilla Chaya
Sarah, born to Moshe and Renee
Schwartz.
Rabbi Ari 10R and Naomi
Schwarzberg on the birth of
a son, Simon Justin Ephraim
Bunim Schwarzberg, and to the
grandparents, Rabbi Ronald
83R and Judy Schwarzberg.
Rabbi Ronald 83R and Judy
Schwarzberg on the birth of a
granddaughter, Julia Belle, born
to aviva and Phillip Reich.
Rabbi Yerachmiel (AA) and
Sheera Seplowitz on the birth
of a grandson, born to Nosson
Tzvi and Sara Seplowitz.
Rabbi Simmy 10R and
Devora Shabtai on the birth of
a daughter, Elisheva Sara.
Rabbi Gideon 97R and
Bonnie Shloush on the Bar
Mitzvah of their son, Michael.
Rabbi Robert 04R and Aviva
Shur on the birth of a son, ariel
Moshe.
Rabbi Nisson Shulman
55R on the birth of a great
granddaughter, Chaya
Shaindle, born to Mordy and
dassi Tiefenbrunn, and to
grandparents Rabbi Moshe
(AA) and Baila Shulman.
Rabbi Elon 08R and Estee
Soniker on the birth of a son,
Moshe Chaim.
Rabbi Moshe Strauch 98R on
his marriage to devora widman.
Rabbi Moshe 14R and
Eliana Watson on the birth of a
daughter, Tamar Tema.
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Rabbi Yaakov 06R and
Ilana Weiss on the birth of a
daughter, adira Shoshana.
Rabbi Matan 10R and Yaff
Wexler on the birth of a son,
Ezra akiva, and to grandparents,
Rabbi Ira 74R and Paula
Spodek.
Rabbi Moshe 11R and Sherry
Winograd on the birth of a son,
akiva Shlomo.
Rabbi Ari 05R and Michal
Zahtz on the birth of a son,
Shmuel.
Rabbi Lawrence 85R and
Berni Zierler on the marriage
of their son, Yoni, to Yocheved
Rappeport, and on the marriage
of their daughter, dorona, to
Gadi Braude.
Rabbi Sammy 84R and Dr.
Deena Zimmerman on the
marriage of their son, ari, to
hodaya Rosh.
Condolences
Amy (and Rabbi Mitchell
72R) Ackerson on the passing
of her father, harry hammer, zl.
Rabbi Elisha Ancselovits 95R
03YY on the passing of his
mother, Sara ancselovits, zl.
Sylvia avrech on the passing of
her husband, Rabbi Abraham
Avrech 43R, zl.
Rabbis Jack Cohn 74R and
Joel Cohn 80R on the passing
of their mother, diane Cohn, zl.
Rabbi Jerome Dattelkramer
63R on the passing of his wife,
ann f. dattelkramer, zl.
Rabbi Avishai David 74R
on the passing of his brother,
Menachem david, zl.
Rabbi David Eisenman 74R
on the passing of his father,
Irving Eisenman, zl.
Rabbi Jeffrey Feinstein 76R
on the passing of his mother,
Libby feinstein, zl.
Rabbi Baruch Felberman 83R
on the passing of his father,
Moshe Shmuel felberman, zl.
The family of Rabbi Dr. Armin
H. Friedman 52R, zl.
Rabbi Cary Friedman 96R on
the passing of his father, Edward
L. friedman, zl.
Dr. Mindy (and Rabbi Dr.
Gershon 72R) Gewirtz on the
passing of her mother, Miriam
Lebovicz, zl.
Rabbi Bennett Gottesman
86R on the passing of his
mother, Edith Gottesman, zl.
Phylllis Gross on the passing
of her husband, Rabbi Edgar
Gross 63R, zl.
Sandy Ehrenkranz on the
passing of her husband, Rabbi
Joseph Ehrenkranz 49R, zl.
Chanie (and Rabbi Dr. Barry
89R) Holzer on the passing of
her father, Rudy Rosenzweig, zl.
The family of Rabbi Moshe
(Whitey) Horovitz 48R, zl.
Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dr. David
Horwitz 84R on the passing of
his mother, Minna horwitz, zl.
Rabbi Fred Hyman 02R on
the passing of his mother, Stella
hyman, zl.

Rabbi Alan Kalinsky 76R on
the passing of his father, Isidore
Kalinsky, zl.
Rabbi Tzvi Klugerman 94R
on the passing of his mother,
francine Klugerman, zl.
Suzie (and Rabbi Chaim 87R)
Marder on the passing her
father, Stanley Langer, zl.
Dvora (and Rabbi Elie 95R)
Marcus and Nava (and Rabbi
Joshua 10R) Schreiber, on
the passing of their father, Rabbi
Yosef Stern, zl.
Rabbi Bertram Mond 54 on
the passing of his brother, otto
Mond, zl.
Rabbi Moshe Novoseller (AA)
on the passing of his wife, Shira
Novoseller, zl.
Rabbi Dr. Yale Port 56R on
the passing of his wife, Marlene
Port, zl.
Rabbi Chaim 11R and Dr.
Shoshana Poupko on the
passing of their daughter, Chana,
zl.
Rabbi David Radinsky 66R on
the passing of his mother, Lillian
Radinsky, zl.
Yu Gaurdian and SSSB Board
Member Rabbi Manfred M.
Rechtschaffen 56R, on
the passing of his wife, Yu
Guardian and National VP of
the Board of Yuwo, Pamela
Rechtschaffen, zl.
Chani (and Rabbi Ely 84R)
Rosenzveig on the passing of
her father, david Gross, zl.
Rabbi Chaim Sacknovitz 68R
on the passing of his brother,
Robert Sacknovitz, zl.
Rabbi Perry Schafer (AA) on
the passing of his mother, Sara
(Edell) Schafer Kelman, zl.
Rabbi Chaim Shulman 52R
and Tzipporah (and Rabbi
Avraham 85R) Phillips on
the passing of their brother and
father respectively, Rabbi dr.
Gershon Shulman, zl.
Rabbi Aharon Simkin 85R
on the passing of his father,
Raymond Simkin, zl.
Rabbi Mark Smilowitz 00R on
the passing of his father, RIETS
Trustee herb Smilowitz, zl.
Sheryl (and Rabbi Michael
86R) Susman on the passing of
her father, david Lappin, zl.
Rabbi Binyamin Walfsh 49R
on the passing of his sister, Ruth
fruchthandler, zl.
Rabbi Steven Weil 90R on
the passing of his father, werner
weil, zl.
Rabbi Howard Wolk 77R on
the passing of his mother, Gisela
wolk, zl.
The entire Yeshiva and the family
on the passing of Rosh Yeshiva
Rabbi Gershon Yankelewitz,
zl.
Linda (and Rabbi Alan (AA))
Yuter on the passing of her
father, Meyer Bender, zl.
The family of Rabbi Dr.
Abraham N. Zuroff 44R, zl.
Rabbi Stuart Zweiter 78R
on the passing of his father,
Benjamin Zweiter, zl.
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