By Shmuel Landesman – 2 Adar 5783 – February 22, 2023 Rav Abba Bronspigel, popular rosh yeshiva at RIETS and founding rosh yeshiva of Bais Medrash L’Talmud at Lander College for Men, died on Shabbos, February 18 in Lakewood, N.J.…
Among the Techeiles community, it’s well known that Rabbi Chaim Yisroel Belsky ZT”L wore Techeiles but didn’t actively tell people they needed to wear it. What many people don’t know was his journey to arrive to the conclusion that murex…
From http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2011/02/unknown-portrait-of-vilna-gaon.html: ” This is from page 2 of the Camden News of Camden, Arkansas Saturday, May 15, 1937. Since someone is going to joke that the Vilna Gaon is not wearing a yarmulke, but the Cardinal is – well, I…
Tunis, Tunisia, 1773 Died:Tunis, Tunisia, 1839 Rabbi of Tunis, a man of miracles and wonders, Kabbalist. Rabbi Yehoshua was constantly on guard protecting the Jews of Tunisia from being persecuted by the Moslem people. One of his friends was…
Article source: https://yated.com/aeoemy-years-in-novardokae%C2%9D-an-interview-with-rav-grainom-lazewnik-shlitae%C2%9Da/ By Rabbi Avrohom Birnbaum – Jan 19, 2011 Yated: Where were you born? Rav Grainom Lazewnik (RGL): I was born in a small town called Lenin. Lenin was not far from the larger town of Luninetz (a town…
This month marks 25 years since I had the privilege of entering Rav Abba Bronspiegel’s shiur at the Yeshiva University’s Mazer Yeshiva Program. We continue to pray for a refuah shleimah for Rav Bronspiegel. Rav Bronspiegel studied under Torah…
By Rabbi Ari Kahn Many years ago when I was a relatively young yeshiva student I had the opportunity to study with one of the great rabbis of the previous generation. His name was Rabbi Yisroel Zeev Gustman and he…
As you may know, I spent five years learning under Rav Gustman between 1979 and 1985. Suffice to say he changed my life. My youngest son Yisroel Zev, proudly bears his name, and I say kaddish every year on…
Humiliation Today is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yisrael Zev Gustman Zt”l (1908-1991); Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Netzach Yisrael Ramailles, located in the Rechavia section of Yerushalayim. I miss him. When I first met Rav Gustman in 1979 he was…
