Category: Hasidic rosh yeshivas

The same is true for the non-Hasidic Litvish yeshivas that are controlled by dynastically transmitted rosh yeshivas and the majority of students will not become rabbis, even after many years of post-graduate kollel study.

Other yeshivas, such as Yeshiva Chaim Berlin ( Brooklyn, New York ) or the Mirrer Yeshiva ( in Brooklyn and Jerusalem ), do not have an official " semicha / rabbinical program " to train rabbis, but provide semicha on an " as needs " basis if and when one of their senior students is offered a rabbinical position but only with the approval of their rosh yeshivas.

* Moshe Mordechai Epstein, rosh yeshivas Slabodka, Lithuania

* Moshe Halberstam, rosh yeshivas Tschakava

* Yitzchok Hutner, rosh yeshivas Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Brooklyn, New York

* Zvi Yehuda Kook, rosh yeshivas Mercaz HaRav

* Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim, rosh yeshivas Mir

* Yechezkel Sarna, rosh yeshivas Slabodka

* Avraham Shapira, rosh yeshivas Mercaz HaRav

* Ahron Soloveichik, rosh yeshivas Brisk, Chicago

* Pesach Stein, rosh yeshivas Telz, Cleveland, Ohio

In recent time, these hakhamim may include the followers ' rebbes (" Hasidic rabbis ), rosh yeshivas (" deans of yeshivas -- Talmudical schools "), or a posek, often identified as an expert in the Shulkhan Arukh, the " Code of Jewish Law ".

* List of rosh yeshivas

Agudah in the United States has been very successful in the difficult task of retaining its major Hasidic factions, with members from the Ger Hasidim in America working together within the organization and its non-Hasidic Lithuanian rosh yeshivas as partners.

The organization has a lay staff, many of whom are also ordained rabbis, but not of a caliber comparable to the rosh yeshivas and rebbes.

* The Degel HaTorah (" Banner the Torah ") party that is guided by the rabbinic heads ( usually the leading rosh yeshivas (" deans ") of the Lithuanian yeshivas ) of non-Hasidic Haredi Ashkenazi Jews.

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Category: Yeshiva University rosh yeshivas

Category: Volozhin rosh yeshivas

He entered the Volozhin Yeshiva in 1884 at the age of 18, where he became close to the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin ( the Netziv ).

He befriended two other future rabbinical leaders then studying philosophy in Berlin: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, later to become rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University in New York City, and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who would become rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn.

Rosh HaAyin is named after its location at the mouth of the Yarkon Spring ( rosh

As a teenager he studied at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva, where he advanced to the highest shiur taught by the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Ezra Attiya.

The novel idea of Jews in all parts of the world studying the same daf each day, with the goal of completing the entire Talmud, was put forth at the First World Congress of the World Agudath Israel in Vienna on 16 August 1923 by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, then Rav of Sanok, Poland, and future rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin.

He moved to America in 1929 and was appointed as a rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary ( RIETS ).

He eventually moved to Chicago and became rosh yeshiva at the Hebrew Theological College and in 1974 founded his own Brisk yeshiva Yeshivas Brisk of Chicago.

Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a prominent rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University, has made the bold claim that with modern dairy farm equipment, milk from the minority of nonkosher cows is invariably mixed with that of the majority of kosher cows, thus invalidating the permissibility of consuming milk from a large dairy operation ; the Orthodox Union, however, released a statement declaring the milk permissible based on some leniencies.

The novel idea of Jews in all parts of the world studying the same daf each day, with the goal of completing the entire Talmud, was put forth at the First World Congress of the World Agudath Israel in Vienna on 16 August 1923 by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, then Rav of Sanok, Poland, and future rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin.

The honor of reciting final portion of the final page at the Continental Arena event was given to Rabbi Chaim Stein, rosh yeshiva of the Telshe yeshiva of Wickliffe, Ohio, who was making his ninth personal Siyum HaShas and had participated in each of the ten preceding events, including the first one held at Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin in 1931.

* Mayer Twersky ( born 1960 ), rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

* Rabbi Michael Rosensweig ( born 1955 ), rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University

* Yehuda Amital, rosh yeshiva, Yeshivat Har Etzion

One such figure was Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner who would become the rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin also in Brooklyn, New York.

* Avraham Yaakov Pam ( 1913 – 2001 ), rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York

These rabbis include: Shlomo Goren ( former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel ); Chaim David Halevi ( former Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Yaffo ); Dov Lior ( Rabbi of Kiryat Arba ); Yosef Elboim ; Yisrael Ariel ; She ' ar Yashuv Cohen ( Chief Rabbi of Haifa ); Yuval Sherlo ( rosh yeshiva of the hesder yeshiva of Petah Tikva ); Meir Kahane.

The frock coat amongst Jews is usually reserved for a rosh yeshiva, ( maybe also the mashgiach and other senior rabbis of the yeshiva ) and other rabbis such as important communal rabbis and some chief rabbis.

He is well known as the rosh yeshiva of many great rabbis including Rabbi Solomon Luria, who married his daughter Lipka.

The rabbis of the town are Rabbi Shlomo Aviner and Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed who is also the rosh yeshiva of the local Beit El Yeshiva.

All of this, together with the respect to his authority that he demanded, induced in his students an obedience and something of a " heightened consciousness " that passed into their lives transforming them into literal Hasidim of their rosh yeshiva, who in turn encouraged this by eventually personally donning Hasidic garb, ( begadim ) and behaving like something of a synthesis between a rosh yeshiva and a rebbe.

He became long-time friends with Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul, who began his yeshiva career in the same class and who advanced to become rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef in 1983.

The bold move, engineered but opposed by Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, backfired when the highly respected Ashkenazi rosh yeshiva ( dean ) of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Rabbi Elazar Shach ( who subsequently founded the Degel HaTorah party ) fiercely commanded Yosef to return Shas to the coalition with the Likud.

His wife was the sister of Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin ( the Netziv ), who would become the rosh yeshiva ( head ) of the Volozhin Yeshiva.

In Hasidic Judaism the role of rosh yeshiva is secondary to the Rebbe, who is head of the Hasidic dynasty that controls it.

Alter Chanoch Henoch Leibowitz ( c. 1918 – April 15, 2008 ) was an Orthodox rabbi who was rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen, which was founded by his father Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz in 1933.

His position as rosh yeshiva of Sfas Emes Yeshiva was assumed by his son, Rabbi Shaul Alter, who is widely regarded as an eminent Talmudic scholar.

* Joseph ibn Migash ( Seville, 1077-1141 ), was a rabbi, posek and a rosh yeshiva who lived in Lucena most of his lifetime.

Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (;‎ 1 October 1910 – 20 March 2012 ) was a Polish-born, American-raised, Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who, from 1965, made his home in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.

After about two decades without any movement members making Aliyah, HDNA sent its first new garin ( literally " seed ," it refers to a collective group moving to Israel ) in 2000, which included Ezra Weinberg, who was rosh ( head ) of Galil in 1999 and 2000.

HDNA sent two more garinim a few years later, one of which included Joshy Cohen, who was rosh in 2002 and 2003.