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  Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler - Definition, explanation
Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892-1953) was an influential Orthodox Jewish thinker of the 20th century.
In 1920 Rabbi Dessler married Bluma, the great-granddaughter of the "Alter" of Kelm.
In the early 1940s, Rabbi Dessler assumed leadership of the newly formed Gateshead kollel, an institute of religious study for married men, which was a novelty in Western Europe.
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  Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892-30 December 1953) was an influential Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Jewish philosopher of the 20th century.
Eliyahu Dessler (who was known throughout his life as Eliyahu Leizer or Elya Lazer) was born in 1892 in Libau, Latvia.
In 1920 Rabbi Dessler married Bluma, the great-granddaughter of the "Alter" of Kelm.
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 Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892-1953) was an influential Orthodox Jewish thinker of the 20th century.
In Kelm, Eliyahu was a diligent student, and would receive semicha (Rabbinic ordination) from his uncle, Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky, who would be the spiritual leader of Orthodox Lituanian Jewry until his death in 1939 and rarely if ever granted ordinations.
In the early 1940s, Rabbi Dessler assumed leadership of the newly formed Gateshead kollel, an institute of religious study for married men, which was a novelty in Western Europe.
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 Rav Dessler: Quality Leads to Quantity
Rabbi Dessler created such an atmosphere of spiritual striving that the members of the kollel and their wives were able to ignore their very strained circumstances.
Rabbi Dessler’s blessing under the chuppah (wedding canopy) to his younger cousin Rabbi Simcha Zissel Dessler and his bride was that they should never experience the test of material wealth (a berachah that Rabbi Simcha Zissel’s son, Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler of Ponevezh Yeshiva, says was fulfilled in full).
But Rabbi Dessler’s great achievement was not that he scorned the material, but that he made the world of ruchnios so real, so palpable that his talmidim were inspired to devote themselves to matters of the Spirit.
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 Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, zt"l: Builder of Torah
Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, whose fiftieth yahrzeit we celebrate this coming Sunday, 24 Teves 5764 - January 2004, is best known as the author of Michtav Me’Eliyahu, the most influential and widely disseminated work of hashkafa of the last century.
Rabbi Dessler’s role in the Kollel was not confined to raising the funds.
Avrohom Dov Kohn, was that of Rabbi Dessler.
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 Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, zt"l: Builder of Torah - Jewish Media Resources
Rabbi Dessler asked himself what he could have done to be the instrument of such a revolution in the understanding of Torah learning in all of England, indeed all of Western Europe.
Avrohom Dov Kohn, was that of Rabbi Dessler.
In one of his letters Rabbi Dessler tried to understand how it could be that "someone of no great ability succeeds in achieving something of the greatest importance to the entire world." His answer: Sometimes one alone understands the importance of the matter and steps forward.
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As with any fusion of religion and philosophy, the attempt is difficult because classical philosophers start with no preconditions for which conclusions they must reach in their investigation, while classical religious believers have a set of religious principles of faith that they hold one must believe.
On this basis Dessler maintains that only those who have spent years concentrating on the subjugation of their desires to their intellect, can even begin to claim intellectual impartiality.
An exception to this rule was Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, a student of the Kelm mussar yeshiva and later Mashgiach (spiritual supervisor) of Ponevezh yeshiva.
www.seedwiki.com /wiki/conj/jewish_philosophy?wpid=476961   (3240 words)

  
 HaMaayan / The Torah Spring - Parashat Vaera
He was born 1891 in Lithuania to R' Reuven Dov Dessler, a wealthy Torah scholar and one of the leading students of R' Simcha Zissel Ziv, the "Alter of Kelm." R' Eliyahu Dessler's mother was a granddaughter of R' Yisrael Salanter, the founder of the mussar movement.
In 1949, R' Dessler was invited to serve as mashgiach ruchani of the Ponovezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak.
R' Dessler revolutionized the study of mussar by introducing kabbalistic and chassidic sources, as well as the writings of the Maharal of Prague, which previously were unknown or virtually ignored in Lithuanian-style academies.
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 Immunohistochemistry - In Situ Hybridization Divine_providence
The view of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler is representative of the Haredi approach.
Given this conception of nature, Rav Dessler castigates preoccupation with technological enterprises and deems this the equivalent of idolatry.
Rav Dessler writes that the acquisition of secular knowledge is unlikely to be other than at the expense of Torah knowledge.
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 Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, zt"l: Builder of Torah
Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, whose fiftieth yahrzeit we celebrate this coming Sunday, 24 Teves, is best known as the author of Michtav Me’Eliyahu, the most influential and widely disseminated work of hashkafa of the last century.
Rabbi Dessler alone replied positively to Reb Dovid’s letter: "My heart sees a great light in the matter which Your Honor suggested – your merit is very great." He replied as he did not because he saw success as guaranteed, but because he viewed the matter as too important not to try.
The Seminary is justly famed for its emphasis on hashkafa, and Rabbi Dessler’s writings remain one of the principal foundations of that hashkafa.
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 Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity in order to reach the heavens.
Traditionally, every town rabbi had the right to maintain a number of full-time or part-time pupils in the town's study hall (beis midrash, usually adjacent to the synagogue).
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 David's Thoughts - Entries from October 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In its 24 Teves 5754 issue, the English edition of the Yated Ne’eman published a brief biography of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler by one of his most devoted disciples in commemoration of the fortieth yahrtzeit of that great twentieth century Jewish leader.
In the course of describing R. Dessler’s childhood, the author included a section entitled “Torah Im Derech Eretz—Kelm Style” where he discussed some of the influences to which “little Elia Laizer” was exposed as a young boy.
During his childhood years, Rabbi Dessler was taught at home and, wrote the author of this article, “true to the principles of his rebbe, R’ Simcha Zissel, the boy’s father included general studies in the curriculum.
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 Australian Information from Wikipedia
Notable among Orthodox Jewish philosophers are Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, Joseph Soloveitchik, and Yitzchok Hutner.
Hasidic Judaism is a form of Orthodox Judaism based on the teachings of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (the 'Baal Shem Tov').
Hassidic philosophy is rooted in the Kabbalah, and Hassidic Jews accept the Kabbalah as sacred scripture.
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 Jonathan Rosenblum: Truth seekers and partisans --- The feat of elevating reason over emotion
For one thing, they provide experimental confirmation of a point emphasized by Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler already in the late 1920s, as he confronted the cult of science of his time.
Rabbi Dessler taught his students to beware that the conclusions of supposedly objective scientists are often heavily tainted by their prior biases.
Even if we grant that this person possesses a keen intellect and is well-educated, writes Rabbi Dessler, we must recognize that his moral character is likely no more than average, and that he has never seriously tackled his own moral failings.
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 Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - NEWS
It was at that time of gloom that Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, zt"l, shouldered the immense burden of establishing the Gateshead Kollel.
Other kollelim and yeshivos followed but, he said, Gateshead had the special duty to live up to the purpose which Rabbi Dessler and the late Gateshead Rov, Rabbi N. Shakovitzky, had in mind in establishing the Gateshead Kollel: to provide those talmidei chachomim who would be the urgently needed future rabbonim and roshei yeshivoh.
Rabbi Sternbuch then inspiringly related one of Rabbi Dessler's shiurim on nes and teva, saying that there was absolutely no difference between them except that we regard teva as routine and nes as extraordinary.
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 Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - IN-DEPTH FEATURES
This invaluable treasure comes from the archive of the remarkable ish chessed Rav Reuven Dessler of Cleveland, the grandson of the Michotv MeEliahu ztvk'l, HaRav Eliyohu Eliezer Dessler.
For instance, HaRav Chaim Ozer Grodzensky in 5693 (1933) sent a letter to HaRav Eliezer Silver about saving a respected family of Vilna who were on the brink of starvation.
The first recommendation letter was from HaRav Itzeleh Blazer zt'l, the second was from HaRav Eliezer Gordon zt'l, the av beis din of Telz, and the third was from the rav of Kelm, HaRav Tzvi Yaakov Oppenheim zt'l.
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Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler had similar views, also discussed in Landau's book.
Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits (1908-1992) holds that man's free will depends on God's decision to remain hidden.
Many of Berkovits' books will be republished by the Eliezer Berkovits Institute for Jewish Thought under the auspices of the Shalem Center, Jerusalem.
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 Cross-Currents » 2006 » January » 12
In the early 1930s, Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler set himself the task of battling the cult of science of his time.
To his private students in London – mostly teenagers from Orthodox homes who attended public school – he first emphasized how circumscribed is the realm of science, and how little it has to say concerning the ultimate purposes of life.
Rabbi Dessler emphasized how the slightest self-interest is sufficient to prejudice the outcome of any decision-making process, and that this applied no less to scientific judgments than any other.
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 Yarzheit.com
The Aderes: Rav Eliyahu Dovid Rabinowitz - Te'imim (YN) Yarzheit 3rd Adar
Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim ben Eliyahu, The Ben Ish Chai.
Rav Yisroel Yaakov Fisher (YN Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, The Telzer Rosh Yeshiva.
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 Jewish Law - Commentary/Opinion - FREEDOM VS. LIMITS
Thus, merely being educated about any problem is not a deterrent, for the human mind focuses on the "good time," and not on the concomitant degradation.
The Chaver begins: "The Way of the Torah is not one of rejection and abhorrence of this world, since that attitude imposes a great burden on life, which would make it detestable.
They could totally remove themselves from worldly interests, for they were immersed in the joy and light of direct contact with Hashem Yisborach.
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 Foreign students at Mir Yeshiva
Rabbi Nakhum Zeev (Wolf) Dessler, from England, studied in Kelm and Telz and knew several Mir Yeshiva students.
His mother, the wife of the renowned rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, and his sister joined the group that traveled to Australia.
Other names probably appear in Rukhama Shein's book "All For the Boss" and "Yiddishkeit" (Jerusalem 1986) published the late Rabbi Shmuel Gorr's article about the escape of the Australian group "From Kelme To Melbourne", based on an interview with Rabbi Silver.
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 FailedMessiah.com: Rabbi Aharon Feldman's Letter Embarrassment
Another source given for his theory of Creation is a cryptic statement by Rav E. Dessler, cited by Slifkin at least twice, that before man was created the idea of time was meaningless and the idea of “days” is simply man’s way of perceiving this pre-human “time”.
All Rav Dessler is saying is that humans perceive the “time” of Creation as “days.” He makes no mention of the days as being Divine concepts.
Rabbi Aryeh Carmel, citing an informal conversation with Rav Dessler, in a footnote to Michtav MeEliahu IV p.
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 Kol HaKollel - Parshas Acharei Mos - Kedoshim - 5762 - Torah.org
Thus, as much as such a relationship is inherently disgraceful, there is a facet of kindness in it.
An alternative understanding is offered by Michtav MeEliyahu (collected writings and discourses of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, 1891-1954, of London and Bnei Brak, one of the outstanding thinkers of the Mussar movement).
In essence, Rabbi Dessler defines "chesed" as self-nullification out of love and devotion to a cause.
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 Beloved Companions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After returning from a journey to the countries of the Far North, Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, the famous author of Michtav Me'eliyahu, described his trip.
What had they gained from their fight?" This is the result when someone fights and does not give in.
From the story told by Rabbi Dessler we can learn how useless it is to argue, since no one really wins.
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 Foreign students at Mir Yeshiva
Chaim Freedman provided most of this information, based on interviews and correspondence with some of the men listed below, including Rabbi Nakhum Dessler, Rabbi Joshua Chinn, Rabbi Shia Lebor, Rabbi Max Segal, Rabbi Shlomo Davis, Rabbi Shmuel Bloch, Menakhem Moore, Rabbi Chaim Silver, Rabbi Blumenthal.
His mother, the wife of the renowned rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, and his sister joined the group that traveled to Australia.
He was later associated with the Lakewood Yeshiva, Cleveland, Ohio.
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 Michtav Me'Eliyahu - Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (5 vol.) - By: Maran Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
Michtav Me'Eliyahu - Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (5 vol.) - By: Maran Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
Michtav Me'Eliyahu - Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (5 vol.)
The collected writings and discourses of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1891-1954) of London and Bnei Brak, one of the outstanding thinkers of the Musar movement.
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 Thoughts to Ponder 60
Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, z.l., one of the most outstanding thinkers in modern Jewish history resolves this problem by analyzing the nature of a promise.
A promise, states Rabbi Dessler, is by definition an untruth.
After all, at the time of the promise, the commitment is nothing but a word.
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Hardly a propitious day for the ultimate hopes of mankind to be realized.
When you've hit the very bottom, that's when you're ready to start looking up again.
He recounted for me some of the things he saw:
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 Jonathan Rosenblum
Typical of the Mussar approach is Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler's treatment of a comment by Rabbi Eliyahu Devidash, the author of the Kabbalistic work Reishis Chochmah.
We will be asked two questions, writes Rabbi Devidash, on the Day of Judgment: "Did you make your Creator king over you every morning and evening?
The questions are not independent, writes Rabbi Dessler, a product of the Kelm Talmud Torah and one of the most profound Jewish thinkers of our century.
www.jewishworldreview.com /jonathan/rosenblum092800.asp   (1000 words)

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