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Brisk Management: Another Look at Rav Chaim Brisker
Episode 332
Rav Chaim Soloveitchik, known as Rav Chaim Brisker (1853-1918), has enjoyed an outsized influence on the methodology of Talmudic study and the development of the modern Torah world. As a historical f…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago
From Slonim to Tverya: The Nesivos Shalom Part II
Episode 331
Rav Shalom Noach Berezovsky was appointed Slonim Rebbe shortly prior to his father in law’s passing in 1981. As he had served as the rosh yeshiva of Slonim for decades, this enabled him to enjoy a cl…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
A Teacher from Slonim: The Nesivos Shalom Part I
Episode 330
The Slonim Rebbe, Rav Shalom Noach Berezovsky (1911-2000) was known by his popular work the Nesivos Shalom. Having grown up in Baranovich in the center of the Slonim chassidic dynasty, he was appoint…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
From World War to Revolution: Iranian Jewry Part II
Episode 329
Iranian Jewry in the 20th century saw much upheaval. The rise of the Pahlavi dynasty brought much hope to the Persian Jewish community. Iran served as a center of some important events of World War I…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Princes of Persia: Iranian Jewry Part I
Episode 328
The ancient Jewish community of Persia/Iran is one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. The site of the Purim story and many Biblical and Talmudic era luminaries, it continued to flourish t…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Chabad & Zionism Part II
Episode 327
With the passing of the fifth rebbe of Chabad the Rashab in 1920, his son Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson (1880-1950), the Rayatz, or the Freidiker (previous) Rebbe, took over the Chabad-Lubavitch move…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Wise Man of Hungary: Rav Yehuda Aszod
Episode 326
Rav Yehuda Aszod (1796-1866) was one of the architects of the emerging Hungarian Orthodoxy of the 19th century. A student of the Maharam Banet, he went to serve in the rabbinate and as a rosh yeshiva…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
A Dazzling Light: The Life & Impact of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
Episode 325
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan (1934-1983) was a dazzling light on the Jewish history scene of the 20th century. With family origins in Thessaloniki, Greece, he was born in the Bronx, and eventually studied at Y…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
The Czars & The Jews Part I
Episode 324
Following the partitions of Poland in the last quarter of the 18th century, the largest Jewish community in the world found themselves under the rule of the Romanov dynasty in the Russian Empire. Eac…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
The Roar of the Lion: The Life of Rav Leib Malin Part I
Episode 323
Prewar student of Rav Yerucham Levovitz and the Brisker Rov, leader during the Mir Yeshiva’s wartime escape to Shanghai, and postwar builder of Bais Hatalmud in Brooklyn, Rav Leib Malin (1906-1962) w…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago