The followers of Musar established the Knesses Yisrael yeshivah, named after Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, while its opponents founded the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshivah, named after Rabbi Spektor.

# REDIRECT Yisroel Salanter

Rabbi Yisroel Lipkin, better known as " Yisroel Salanter " or " Israel Salanter " ( November 3, 1810, Zhagory – February 2, 1883, Königsberg ), was the father of the Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism and a famed Rosh yeshiva and Talmudist.

* An examination of the life and accomplishments of Reb Yisroel Salanter

# REDIRECT Yisroel Salanter

* Yisroel Salanter

Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz founded the Chofetz Chaim yeshiva in the footsteps of his rebbe, the Alter of Slabodka, and Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the founder of the Mussar movement.

Under the latter's guidance, the book Eitz Pri was published, featuring essays by Rabbis Salanter and Spektor-including a foreword by the then lesser-known Rabbi Yisroel Meir HaKohen ( the " Chafetz Chaim ").

He was compelled to assume this position by his father-in-law, Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel of Cherkas ( son of Rabbi Mordechai of Chernobyl and son-in-law of the Mitteler Rebbe ) against his father ’ s wishes.

His father's students mentioned to him that they asked his father how he will name his book and he answered Ner Yisroel (" Lamp of Israel ") ( abbreviation: נר יפה של רבי אברהם הלוי ).

The appellation “ Baal Shem ” was not unique to Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer ; however, it is Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer who is most closely identified as a “ Baal Shem ”, as he was the founder of the spiritual movement of Hasidic Judaism.

Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser, a Breslover Hasid from Tiberias who inspired the Na Nach movement.

Odesser was among the first Breslover Hasidim in Israel, having learned about the movement from Rabbi Yisroel Halpern when he was a young yeshiva student.

Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel is an Orthodox yeshiva in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, New York.

There are several branches of Touro College there, and Midwood is also home to several large orthodox synagogues, including the Young Israel of Midwood, Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin of Avenue L, The minyan factory known as Landau's Shul, offering minyanim every 15 minutes on an average day, Rabbi Avraham Schorr's Synagogue on East 15th Street and Avenue L, The Bostoner Rebbe on Avenue J, Steinvertzles, The Young Israel of Avenue J, The Agudah of Midwood, plus several Syrian Orthodox synagogues.

Congregation Tiferes Yisroel Bais Dovid-תפרש ישראל בית דוד known as Rabbi Goldberger's Shul is an Orthodox Jewish congregation located in northwest Baltimore, Maryland.

Hasidic Judaism was founded by Yisroel ben Eliezer ( 1700 – 1760 ), also known as the Ba ' al Shem Tov ( or Besht ).

The term " Misnagdim " gained a common usage among Jews living in Europe as the term that referred to Ashkenazi Jews who opposed the rise and spread of early Hasidic Judaism, particularly as embodied by Hasidism's founder, Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ), who was known as the Baal Shem Tov or BESHT.

* Yisroel ben Eliezer ( Baal Shem Tov ) considered to be the founder of Hasidic Judaism

World Agudath Israel (), usually known as the Aguda, was established in the early twentieth century as the political arm of Ashkenazi Torah Judaism, in succession to Agudas Shlumei Emunei Yisroel ( Union of Faithful Jewry ).

A Na-Nach Breslov ( Hasidic dynasty ) | Breslover Hasidic Judaism | Hasid stands beside a van emblazoned with images of Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser and the " Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman " phrase in downtown Jerusalem.

* Satmar Shtibel of Woodridge was founded in 2002 by Rabbi Yisroel Aron Goldenberg, a spinoff from Satmar.

Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( רבי ישראל בן אליעזר — May 22, 1760 ), often called Baal Shem Tov ( or ) or Besht, was a Jewish mystical rabbi.

Yisroel ( Israel ) was born to poor and not very young parents Eliezer and Sara in a seetlement near Okopy Świętej Trójcy, a newly built fortress close to Kameniec in the West Ukraine, where Zbruch connects with Dniester.

He was a prominent and the youngest disciple of Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch, the " Great Maggid ", who was in turn the successor of the founder of Hasidism, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer known as the Baal Shem Tov.

This mantra was not used by Rebbe Nachman himself, but was taught in the 20th century by Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser.

The violence was condemned by Agudas Yisroel of America, but not by any rabbinic authority in Israel.

Rav Yisroel was interested in organizing a Sanhedrin, but he accepted the ruling of Levi ibn Habib and David ibn abi Zimra that we cannot create semikhah by ourselves.

He answered that since the Bnei Reuven had been distant from the rest of Klal Yisroel before this ruling had been accepted, there is no reason to assume that they accepted this ruling, and there was a chance that they were still keeping the institution of semikhah alive.

In the early 19th century, the Kozhnitzer Magid Yisroel Hopsztajn was one of the pioneers of Hasidism in Poland.

Hebron Yeshiva, also known as Yeshivas Hevron, or Knesses Yisroel, and originally as Slabodka Yeshiva, is known colloquially as the " mother of yeshivas " and was devoted to high-level study of the Talmud.

Boruch Hager was born in 1845 and was named after Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh at the behest of his grandfather, Yisroel Friedman of Ruzhyn.

Yisroel Hager was born on August 20, 1860.

There was a succession struggle between Yisroel Hager and Menachem Mendel Hager, the two sons of Moshe Hager.

Yisroel Aaron Fischel ( later known as Harry ) was born on July 19, 1865, in the small, isolated Russian town of Meretz to poor but pious parents.

He was born Yisroel Yehoyshue Zinger, the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman.

The Na Nach Nachma phrase was " revealed " and taught by Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser, a well known Breslov figure who was born in 1888 in Tiberias.

Rabbi Rasson Arusi is founder of ' Halikhoth Ahm Yisroel ' and Makhon Mishnath haRambam, and head of the marriage department of the Rabbinate of Israel, as well as chief rabbi of city of Kiryat Ono in Israel.

The Mishnah Berurah of Rabbi Yisroel Meir ha-Kohen, ( the " Chofetz Chaim ", Poland, 1838 – 1933 ) is a commentary on the " Orach Chayim " section of the Shulchan Aruch, discussing the application of each Halakha in light of all subsequent Acharonic decisions.

Rabbi Yisroel Noach ( 1815 – 1883 ) of Nizhyn, although officially a Rebbe, had only a small following.

# Grand Rabbi Yisrael Alter ( October 12, 1895 – February 20, 1977 ), also known as the Beis Yisroel.

Others, such as Rav Yisroel of Shklov ( 1770 – 1839 ), believed it may not have been broken at all but that it continued outside of the land of Israel.

* Rabbi Tzvi Berkowitz – maggid shiur, Yeshivas Ner Yisroel

* Rabbi Aharon Feldman – rosh yeshiva, Yeshivas Ner Yisroel and member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah

* Rabbi Yissocher Frand – maggid shiur and lecturer, Yeshivas Ner Yisroel

: Years ago, an organization like the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation -- which is marshaling the latest technology and enlisting the best communicators to help Klal Yisroel fight loshon hara and other sins of speech – would have been unimaginable.

Yisrael Alter, ( 12 October 1895 – 20 February 1977 ), also known as the Beis Yisroel after the works he authored, was the fourth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1948 until 1977.

***** Rebbe Yisroel Mordechai ( Israel Mordecai ) Twersky ( 1929-2004 ) of Rachmastrivka-Yerushalayim – previous Rachmastrivka Rebbe of Jerusalem-son of Rebbe Yochanan.

****** Rebbe Duvid ( David ) Twersky of Rachmastrivka-Yerushalayim – present Rachmastrivka Rebbe of Jerusalem-second to the eldest son of Rebbe Yisroel Mordechai

****** Rabbi Nachman Yosef – eldest son of Rebbe Yisroel Mordechai ( lives in Crown Heights and is a Lubavitcher chasid )

His son, Yerachmiel Yisroel Yitzchok Dancyger ( 1853 – 1910 ), was even more famous, and accumulated a large group of followers.

*** Grand Rabbi Yerachmiel Yisroel Yitzchak Danziger ( 1853 – 1910 ), author of Yismach Yisroel, son of Rabbi Yechiel.

Ruzhin ( or Rizhin ) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Yisroel Friedman ( 1796 – 1850 ) in the town of Ruzhyn, Ukraine, today an urban-type settlement in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.

****** Grand Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel Yeshurun Rubin of Sasregen ( 1884 – 1944 ) son of Rabbi Boruch

**** Rabbi Yisroel Yona Horowitz of Boro Park – son of Grand Rabbi Chaim Avrohom

Rabbi Yitzchok of Warka () was a disciple of Grand Rabbi Dovid Biderman of Lelov ( 1746 – 1814 ), who was a disciple of the Seer of Lublin, who was a disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, who was a disciple of Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch ( the Maggid ), the main disciple of Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer ( The Baal Shem Tov ), the founder of Hasidism.