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Rabbi Yitzchak Rubinstein & The Vilna Rabbinate Controversy
Episode 282
Though Vilna was known as the Jerusalem of Lithuania, it hadn't had an official chief rabbi since a dispute about the position ended in 1791. As a result of the Polish government requiring the hiring…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
The Great Defender of Israel: Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev
Episode 281
One of the most legendary leaders the Chassidic movement has ever produced Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1740-1809) is a universally beloved figure as well. Following his conversion to the nascent…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Radical Mussarites: The School of Novardok
Episode 280
The Novardok Yeshiva was both a mussar philosophy as well as a movement. Founded by Rav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz (1850-1919), the Alter of Novardok, in 1896, it soon grew into tens of branches across Ru…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Jews of the Maghreb: The Uniqueness of Moroccan Jewry
Episode 279
There is a certain uniqueness to the storied and ancient Jewish community of Morocco. At least 2,000 years old, it became the numerically largest Sephardic community in the world by the mid 20th cent…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Great American Jewish Cities #21: Monsey Part II
Episode 278
From the early days of Bais Medrash Elyon and its prominent alumni, Monsey continued to develop both up and down "the hill". Rav Yaakov Lipschutz, Rav Chaim Flohr and others were prominent rabbis, as…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Great American Jewish Cities #21: Monsey Part I
Episode 277
Monsey. Rockland County. The Hudson River Valley. The image of suburbia. This small town across the Tappan Zee Bridge somehow developed into one of the largest Jewish Orthodox enclaves worldwide.
Tho…Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Torah for Eternity: Stories of Rav Shmuel Rozovsky
Episode 276
Rav Shmuel Rozovsky (1913-1979) was perhaps the most influential teacher of Torah in the rebuilding of the post war Yeshiva world. Born into a rabbinic family in Grodno, he eventually moved to Palest…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
The Kabbalists of Komarno: Part II
Episode 275
In keeping with the mystical leanings of the Komarno dynasty, it is interesting to note the frequency in which the leaders of the dynasty passed away during the time of Sefiras Haomer, a fact which h…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
The Kabbalists of Komarno: The Komarno Dynasty Part I
Episode 274
One of the most unusual dynasties in the annals of the Chassidic movement is the Komarno dynasty. Closely related to the Zhiditchov dynasty, it carved out its own niche in Galicia and beyond, with it…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Stories Of Ner Israel Part III
Episode 273
Another installment of stories of the Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore throughout its history. Led by its legendary Rosh Yeshiva Rav Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, the Yeshiva grew and was to have a lastin…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago