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  Daily HALACHA by Rabbi Eli Mansour - About The Sources Frequently Quoted In The Halachot
Rosh studied in the yeshivot of the Franco-German Tosafist school, and his outstanding teacher was Rabbi Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg.
Due to persecution of the Jews by the Germans, Rosh fled to Spain in 1303, where he was greatly honored by Rashba.
Rosh's literary legacy includes more than 1,000 responsa, as well as commentaries on the Talmud in which he combines the method of the Franco-German Tosafists with that of the Spanish yeshivot.
www.dailyhalacha.com /sources.asp   (2273 words)

  
  Jewish Professionals Institute (JPI) - Holocaust Thesis Chapter 6
These were: (i) Rabbi J. Soloveitchik was elevated to the post of rosh yeshivah at RIETS; (ii) Leaders of an important European yeshivah, Telz, came to America and re-established the school in Cleveland; (iii) Rabbi Aharon Kotler, head of the yeshivah in Kletsk, Poland, was among several scholars who arrived in America.
With its 250 students and faculty it was one of the oldest of Europe's yeshivahs.
We were sent by the Almighty to replant the Yeshivah of Telshe in America." In the span of forty years the yeshivah grew to become one of the world's "great Torah centers and stands as a living monument to the dedication and vision" of Rabbi E. Bloch and Rabbi C. Katz.
www.jpi.org /holocaust/hlchp6a.htm   (8266 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Rosh Yeshiva   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה) (pl.: Roshei yeshiva, also referred to as "Rosh yeshivas") is a rabbi who is the academic "head", or rosh (ראש), of a yeshiva (ישיבה), a school of higher Talmudic study.
Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein is a Talmudist and the Rosh Yeshiva of the Slabodka Yeshiva.
Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה) (pl.: Rashei yeshiva, also referred to as "Rosh yeshivas") is a rabbi who is the academic "head", or rosh (ראש), of a yeshiva (ישיבה), a school of Talmudic study.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rosh-Yeshiva   (2145 words)

  
  Rosh yeshiva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה) (pl.: Rashei yeshiva, also referred to as "Rosh yeshivas") is a rabbi who is the academic "head", or rosh (ראש), of a yeshiva (ישיבה), a school of higher Talmudic study.
In Babylonia the Rosh yeshiva was referred to as the Reish Metivta (or RaM) in Aramaic.
The general role of the rosh yeshiva is to oversee the Talmudic studies and practical matters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosh_yeshivah   (590 words)

  
 Top Literature - Rosh yeshivah
Rashei yeshiva; Yeshivish Rosh yeshivas) is a rabbi who is the academic "head", or rosh (ראש), of a yeshiva (ישיבה), a school of Talmudic study.
In Hasidic Judaism the role of Rosh yeshiva is secondary to the Rebbe, who is head of the Hasidic dynasty that controls it.
In many Hassidic sects, the Rosh Yeshivah of a school will be the son or son-in-law of the Rebbe, the assumed heir of the Rebbe.
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 Rosh yeshiva - TheBestLinks.com - Rosh yeshivah, Aramaic, Holocaust, Halakha, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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A Rosh yeshiva (plural, Roshei yeshiva) is a rabbi who is the academic "head" (rosh) of a yeshiva, a college of higher Talmudic study.
He is required to have a vast and penetrating knowledge of the Talmud and most responsa and the ability to "talk in learning", meaning supreme capabilities and knowledge of his material and an ability to anlayse and present new perspectives that are called chidushim (novellae) verbally and often in print.
www.thebestlinks.com /Rosh_yeshivah.html   (516 words)

  
 Ha Gaon Rosh Yeshivah Yisroel Belsky :: Torah Giant Calls for Action to Defend the Sanctity of Marriage
The Rosh Yeshivah's call comes in response to the passage of a controversial bill by the New York State Assembly at the close of last term.
The Rosh Yeshivah writes that before the Almighty brought vengeance down upon the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, these people had regarded a homosexual relationship as a valid form of marriage.
The Rosh Yeshiva is a leader of one of the oldest and most prestigious academies of Torah learning in United States, Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, in Brooklyn.
sev.prnewswire.com /religion/20070716/NYF01613072007-1.html   (1144 words)

  
 A Little Bit About Me
The average yeshivah in Brooklyn teaches the religious curriculum in the mornings, until around 2 or 3 o'clock, and then teaches the secular curriculum until around 5 or 6 o'clock.
Yeshivah Chaim Berlin is a well-known non-Hasidic yeshivah.
Stoliner Yeshivah is an atypical Chassidic Yeshivah, in that they study in the Litvisher method, though without going to the extremes for which some yeshivas are noted.
www.beingjewish.com /misc/aboutme.html   (1413 words)

  
 Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner
In one letter the Rosh Yeshivah expresses his admiration for his correspondent's ability to display simultaneously both the keeness of a sharp blade and the sweetness of charming poetry.
These letters bring to mind the Rosh Yeshivah as a rock to which his talmidim turned with complete assurance in the midst of a seething ocean of conflicts, problems, and doubts.
The heights scaled by the Rosh Yeshivah were, we well knew, shrouded from us by a mist of yiras hakavod (awe) - at the very time that he both radiated and inspired ahavah without bounds.
www.tzemachdovid.org /gedolim/jo/tworld/rhutner.html   (4149 words)

  
 Rabbi Scheinerman's Home Page
One day, the Rosh Yeshivah, the head of the yeshivah, the chief rabbi himself, decided to visit the tzaddik and to open his heart to him.
As he approached the hut, the Rosh Yeshivah saw the tzaddik standing in the doorway, his arms outstretched in welcome.
When the Rosh Yeshivah had first told them the tzaddik's teaching, they put their minds to work trying to figure out who the tzaddik was.
scheinerman.net /judaism/sermons/davidow-2.html   (976 words)

  
 Reb Pesach Pruskin - Rosh Yeshivah in Kobrin
3 When his friends in the yeshivah discovered that one of his Parisian sisters had married a wealthy maskil and was living in nearby Vilna, they urged him to visit her.
During this period, he met his Rosh Yeshivah, Reb Isser Zalman, who invited him to return to Slutsk as Mashgiach of the yeshivah.
Then Reb Chaim Volozhiner opened the first independent yeshivah in Europe, and as a result the two roles were separated: a) Rav and b) Rosh Yeshivah.
www.famousrabbis.com /puskin.htm   (2758 words)

  
 "Birkas Shmuel": Rosh Yeshivah in Kamenitz -Reb Baruch Ber Lebowitz
"Birkas Shmuel": Rosh Yeshivah in Kamenitz -Reb Baruch Ber Lebowitz
My stanchye was closer to the Rosh Yeshivah's house than to the yeshivah, so I davened more frequently with Reb Baruch Ber's private minyan in his house than in the yeshivah.
One dark night, friends placed the old Rosh Yeshivah and his family on a wagon and sneaked them out to Brisk and then placed them on the train to Vilna.
www.famousrabbis.com /boruchber.htm   (4997 words)

  
 ArtScroll.com -- The Rosh Yeshiva Remembers / By Rabbi Asher Bergman
These are stories that have been passed down from generation to generation, inspiring the yeshivah world in every country where its values and dedication to Torah study have taken root.
When told by the Ponevezher Rosh Yeshivah, they are classic lessons in love of Torah and service of Hashem.
Because the soul of the yeshivah is found not only in pored-over tomes, penetrating analyses, and profound lectures.
www.artscroll.com /Books/ryrh.html   (501 words)

  
 A Seder in a Nazi Prison - Stories - Jewish Kids
Among the prisoners was an aging Rosh Yeshivah, caught by the Germans teaching Torah to his students in a secret basement.
He, the Rosh Yeshivah, knew the reckoning or the Sabbaths and the weekdays, and even of day and night, and he would pray quietly, morning, afternoon and evening.
The Rosh Yeshivah continued his lively chant, retelling the miraculous deeds of the Exodus, and the translator told the Poles about Pharaoh and his slave society; how the Jewish slaves built Pharaoh the cities of Pithom and Ramses, and how he, Pharaoh, murdered children or the Israelites.
www.chabad.org /kids/article.htm/aid/403/jewish/A-Seder-in-a-Nazi-Prison.html   (1814 words)

  
 MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Moses Sofer
The original Pressburg Yeshivah was founded by the Hatam Sofer, who, like his successors, was Dean of the Yeshivah as well as Rabbi of the town.
This combination of the two roles, Rabbi and Rosh Yeshivah, in one person was traditional but was not generally followed in the great Lithuanian Yeshivot of the nineteenth century, where the post of Rosh Yeshivah was independent of the Rabbinate of the town.
This is the main reason why in the Pressburg Yeshivah and its many offshoots in Hungary the emphasis was on practical law, while in the Lithuanian Yeshivot it was on pure theory and keen analysis of legal concepts.
www.myjewishlearning.com /history_community/Modern/ModernReligionCulture/MoreEmergence/Orthodox_Judaism/Jacobs_Sofer.htm   (803 words)

  
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 Artscroll.com -- Chapter from Noble Lives Noble Deeds -- The Significance of a Single Jew - Harav Chaim Shmulevitz, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Harav Chaim Shmulevitz zt”l, Rosh Yeshivah of the Mirrer Yeshivah in Yerushalayim, was born in 5663/1903 in Stuchin, Poland where his father, Harav Alter Raphael, was Rosh Yeshivah of the yeshivah.
Despite his promising future, Chaim was forced to leave yeshivah at the age of 16 as a result of the sudden death of both of his parents.
The eminent Rosh Yeshivah, Harav Shimon Shkop, Rosh Yeshivah of the yeshivah in Grodno, found out about this situation and was aghast that a student of Chaim’s ability should be in the workforce instead of yeshivah.
www.mesorah.org /Chapters/nobh-024.html   (1066 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Yeshivah World   (Site not responding. Last check: )
...The typical yeshivah student today, however, is more likely to be the son of a businessman or professional whose own formal Jewish education ended on the elementary or highschool level, and who, very much in the American tradition, wants his offspring to enjoy the opportunities that he himself was denied...
...The Lakewood yeshivah is generally regarded as the most distinguished in America-the Harvard, one might say, of American yeshivotbut it is only one of many other such academies that have been established in the wake of the renaissance of Orthodox Judaism in the United States...
...The yeshivah, as the primary institutional setting for organized study of Torah, dates back to the *Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) in New York City is not properly in- cluded among the yeshivot since it is a professional school that trains men for the pulpit rabbinate...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V62I4P72-1.htm   (2856 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Kalonymus Haberkasten
He is well known as the Rosh yeshiva of many great Rishonim including Joshua Falk and Solomon Luria; his daughter Lipka married Luria.
Haberkasten left Ostrog to assume the position of rosh yeshiva in Brisk and Luria succeeded him to the rabbinate in Ostrog.
Haberkasten was also a Kabbalist; he is known to have made the acquaintance of the great Kabbalists in the Holy Land, including Chaim Vital.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Kalonymus_Haberkasten   (258 words)

  
 Kol Dodi on Megillas Ruth --- 1800Eichlers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rabbi David Feinstein, Rosh Yeshivah of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem, is renowned as one of the world's leading poskim (authorities in Torah law).
The Rosh Yeshivah's unique blend of depth of understanding, broad knowledge of the Talmud and Midrash, skill with gematria, command of history, and understanding of human nature combine to present the reader with a fascinating commentary.
The Rosh Yeshivah's comments and insights shed new light on the Book, its historic significance, and the quiet greatness of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz.
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 Avodah V17 #14
The Yom Tov morning meal, the Rosh Yeshivah said, is a good time to give the children a chance to talk about what they learned in school or cheder, and the father should listen to what they have to say.
One of the highlights of the Seder is the singing of the piyut Adir B'Mluchah, for which the rosh yeshivah uses an exuberant, heartening tune.
The rosh yeshivah recalls the joy that the nigun brought to that elderly Yid, and the same joyous notes inspire those at the rosh yeshivah's table each year.
www.aishdas.org /avodah/vol17/v17n014.shtml   (4986 words)

  
 Rosh Yeshiva Remembers, The --- 1800Eichlers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
These are stories that have been passed down from generation to generation, inspiring the yeshivah world in every country where its values and dedication to Torah study have taken root.
But these are more than “stories.” When told by the Ponevezher Rosh Yeshivah, they are classic lessons in love of Torah and service of Hashem.
Because the soul of the yeshivah is found not only in pored-over tomes, penetrating analyses, and profound lectures.
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 Parshas HaShavua
Rebbi Efes, who succeeds Rebbi as Rosh Yeshivah in Eretz Yisrael, is two and half years Rebbi Chanina bar Chama's senior.
Shmuel (Yarchina'ah), his colleague, who was already Rosh Yeshivah in Neherda'a before Rav arrived in Bavel, succeeds him by seven years, during which time the two Yeshivos (Sura and Neherda'a) merge.
He, Rav Yehudah and Rav Huna are appointed Rosh Yeshivah at this time, and serve in that position until the year 4060 (although earlier, the author cited another opinion - see year 4050).
www.shemayisrael.co.il /parsha/chrysler/archives/tetzave63.htm   (2182 words)

  
 News
He was the Posek and Rosh Harabonin of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and laid the foundation for it to become a Torah community.
The Rosh Yeshivah’s shiur on Mesechta Shabbos which the Kollel is presently learning encompasses lomdus and bekius in many poskim and a great heikif to all parts of halacha, opening for the avreichim the inner chambers of halacha till halacha l’maaseh.
The rosh yeshivah is known in the Torah world for his many sifrei halocha, the last one being published just last week.
kohain.org /news.htm   (2233 words)

  
 Jewish inspirational books - Reb Moshe - the life and ideals of Hagaon Reb Moshe Feinstein   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Everyone perceived the Rosh Yeshivah in his own capacity, according to his own experience and needs, but one thing is indisputable: there is not an observant family in the world that has not been touched by the Rosh Yeshivah in some way, by his person or by his halachic (Torah law) decisions.
As part of his role as Rosh Yeshivah, he would invite groups of talmidim (students) to be present at a chalitzah so that we could learn how such rare mitzvos (commandments) are to be practiced.
The Rosh Yeshivah was utterly devoted to his institutions, on the Lower East Side and in Staten Island, and he was always available to anyone, especially his talmidim.
www.jewishbktown.com /st/Jewish_inspirational_books_Reb_Moshe_the_life_and_ideals_of_Hagaon_Reb_Moshe_Feinstein.htm   (5968 words)

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